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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore) 24 2 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 11 1 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 3 1 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 2 2 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: February 19, 1862., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 1 1 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1848. (search)
e years, and obtaining a respectable competence by labor in the mines. Returning, he purchased a farm in Epworth, Dubuque County, Iowa. He was there married, September 12, 1857, to Miss Marion Pratt, whose family had emigrated to Iowa from Connecticut. They had three children,—two sons and a daughter,—and were living in prosperity on their farm when the war began. In August, 1862, at the age of thirty-six, he enlisted as a private in the Twenty-first Iowa Volunteers (Infantry), Colonel Samuel Merrill. In a subsequent letter, referring to this enlistment (October 17, 1862), he says:— If there had been an abundance of young men in our State ready to enlist, I should undoubtedly have remained at home. But it was not so. The alternative remained for me to enlist and be removed far away from all the sweet amenities of home, incur all the risks of war in all its varied forms,—and those on the battlefield are not the greatest,—or remain at home in peace, and have my cheek ma
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, Biographical Index. (search)
l, Col., I. 159. Marshall, Humphrey, Brig.-Gen., II. 424. Marshall, Isaac, II. 427. Martindale, J. H., Brig.-Gen., II. 167. Mason, Albee, I. 193. Mason, A., Lieut., I. 69. Mason, E. B., Lieut., Memoir, I. 409-414. Mason, H. C., Capt., II. 96. Mason, Hannah R., I. 409. Mason, Jonathan, I. 193, 409;. Mason, W. P., I. 409. Meade, G. G., Maj.-Gen., I. 14, 219;.220,427, 428; II. 70, 71;, 75, 100, 101, 222, 224, 261, 301,302,421. Means, J. O., Rev., II. 156. Merrill, Samuel, Col., I. 126. Merritt, C. M., Capt., II. 35. Miles, N. A., Brig.-Gen., I. 111. Miller, Adam, Lieut., I. 322. Mills, Anna C. L., II. 133. Mills, C. H., II. 133. MillS, C. J., Brev. Maj., Memoir, II. 133-141. Montgomery, James, Col., II. 194, 463;. Moore, A. B., Col., II. 240. Moore, S. W., II. 229. Morgan, E. D., Gov., I. 11, 91;. Morgan, J., II. 241. Morris, Josephine M., I. 90. Morse, C. F., Lieut.-Col., II. 273, 274;. Mosby, J. S., Col.