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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 6 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2 4 0 Browse Search
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 4 0 Browse Search
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ookline, Mass., Sept. 19, 1859], career, 2.160; agent for Genius, 1.145, host of Grimkes, 2.205, aid to G., 160, 329; on Lib. finance com., 332; at Chardon St. Conv., 424. Philleo, Calvin, Rev., 1.321. Philleo, Mrs. See Prudence Crandall. Phillips, Ann T. Greene [b. 1813], 2.353. Phillips, John [1770-1823], 2.129. Phillips, Joseph, opposes Cresson, 1.353, 365. Phillips, Wendell [b. Boston, Nov. 29, 1811; d. there Feb. 2, 1884], descent, 2.129, 194, lawyer, 1.453, 2.129, 194; witnPhillips, John [1770-1823], 2.129. Phillips, Joseph, opposes Cresson, 1.353, 365. Phillips, Wendell [b. Boston, Nov. 29, 1811; d. there Feb. 2, 1884], descent, 2.129, 194, lawyer, 1.453, 2.129, 194; witnesses Boston mob, :32, 34, and reviews it, 22, 31; A. S. enlightenment from E. G. Loring, 55; joins abolitionists, 129, 193; first A. S. speech, 129, 137, tribute to and from G., 129, 249; stirred by Lovejoy's death, 185, reply to Austin, 189; at Peace Convention, 229; tribute to Lib., 240, 263, 330; president of Boston A. S. S., 243; at Worcester Convention, 245; speech at State House, 249; to edit Abolitionist, 262, 263; opposes Phelps-Torrey resolutions, 272, 273; second speech in Faneuil Hal
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1842. (search)
rted on two one-eighth-inch irons, but I love to mingle in these gay crowds. . . . . December 17.—Wonder what South Carolina is doing. Skating. . . . . December 28.—Great stir yesterday, owing to the despatch that Major Anderson had evacuated and destroyed Fort Moultrie. Some of the people talk blood and warfare, but this is easy talking far away from the probable scenes of danger. . . . . January 25, 1861.—What a short-sighted babydom prevails in Boston. The Mayor fears W. Phillips and the Abolitionists will make a riot, and so closes the Anti-slavery Convention. Boston gentlemen, or rather, Boston snobbery, must stop the mouths of the radicals and fanatics, because, forsooth, the traitors of South Carolina won't like it.—Bah! the fools make one sick. . . . . March 7.—Anniversary of D. Webster's fatal speech, and of my birth. . . . . April 15.—'Tis true Sumter has fallen, and war has commenced. We accept the fact with mortification and anger. A s
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1861. (search)
ely did Captain Bigelow hold his post against a whole Rebel brigade, whose centre alone could be reached by his fire, while the wings closed in on either side. After suffering a fearful loss, with every horse killed, and only one commissioned officer and one sergeant left for duty, the heroic little band was recalled, having given Major-General Sickles time to prepare for a counter-charge, in which the lost ground was regained, and the guns secured by the Fifth Massachusetts Battery, Captain Phillips. Among the disabled sergeants was Fenton, who was wounded in the right leg, below the knee. He was in the most exposed position, and was taken prisoner, but was afterwards retaken by our forces. He was removed, after three days, to the Jarvis Hospital, Baltimore, and was thought not to be dangerously wounded; but fever prostrated him, and, gradually sinking, he died on the 28th of July. His wife and mother reached him a few hours before his death, and were present at his burial i
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1863. (search)
the service until the success of the cause was decided. His comrades lament the loss of a brave soldier and a true friend and gentleman. Gorham Phillips Stevens. Second Lieutenant 70th New York Vols. (Infantry), January 2, 1862; first Lieutenant, May 5, 1862; died at Harrison's Landing, Va., August 12, 1862, of disease contracted in the service. Gorham Phillips Stevens was born at North Andover, Massachusetts, December 7, 1841. He was the son of William and Elizabeth Barnard (Phillips) Stevens; and the younger brother of Colonel William O. Stevens, whose biography appears earlier in this work. His name unites those of families prominent in Eastern Massachusetts, and his birthplace was in the district where the influence of his mother's family has been specially felt in such institutions as, the Andover Seminary and Phillips Academy. In October,. 1849, his father removed to Lawrence, where he still resides. There Gorham passed through the successive stages of the publi
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 8: (search)
the performance of Cobb's brigade at Marye's hill. His heroic command was now composed of the Sixteenth regiment, Col. Goode Bryan; Eighteenth, Col. W. T. Wofford; Twenty-fourth, Col. Robert McMillan; Cobb's legion, Lieut.-Col. L. J. Glenn, and Phillips' legion, Col. W. Phillips, under the command of Brig.-Gen. Thomas R. R. Cobb, who had succeeded Gen. Howell Cobb. On the night of December 11th, the brigade had taken its position in the Telegraph road, a sunken highway at the base of Marye's hm warmly who knew his great intellect and good heart. The losses of Cobb's brigade were as follows: Staff, 3 wounded; Sixteenth regiment, 4 killed, 62 wounded, 4 missing; Eighteenth, 11 killed, 47 wounded; Twenty-fourth, 5 killed, 31 wounded; Phillips' legion, 13 killed, 55 wounded; aggregate, 235. Among the killed were Lieut. J. S. Bowring, Capt. Walter S. Brewster and Lieut.-Col. R. T. Cook. Capt. John P. W. Read's battery (Pulaski artillery), Capt. Henry H. Carlton's battery (Troup art
The cage. --The following parties were yesterday committed to the cage, viz:--Richard Kerr, charged with obtaining Government flour feloniously; Julia, slave to W. Phillips, charged with having in her possession a large lot of stolen goods; a number of negroes charged with being unlawfully assembled.