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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1852. (search)
disastrous battle of the 13th:— We have this moment received orders to have to-morrow morning, right after breakfast, three days rations issued to officers and men, and sixty rounds of ammunition to each man. This looks like moving, and it remains to be seen what will be done. What was done can be read, not only in his own epitaph, but in the broken hearts and desolate homes of, alas! how many. A portion of the sad story can best be told in the words of his superior officer, Surgeon Sherman. After speaking of his sacrifices to duty, and utter disregard of danger, he says:— Witnessing his self-exposure at the battle of Antietam, I had, as Medical Director of the Second Division, detailed your son, in a written order, in the event of a battle, to repair to the Division Hospital, and give his services there instead of in the field with his regiment. When I communicated this order to your son, he evidently felt disappointed. He expressed a strong choice to go wherever
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1859. (search)
f the generals in the Army of the Potomac do not play upon him, he will clear Virginia of the Rebels. But Grant himself will be there, and he will watch so closely all whom he suspects, that they will be obliged to do their duty. I expect that Sherman will keep the cavalry busy this season. He believes in hurting the Rebels, and will go in for grand raids. In the expedition from Atlanta, under Generals Stoneman and McCook, the Fifth Iowa Cavalry was attached to the command of the latter. to be found in the narratives of his fellow-soldiers. Mr. White's account, quoted above, continues as follows:— On the 19th of September, eleven hundred were taken from the stockade to be exchanged for Rebel prisoners in the hands of General Sherman. Martin and I were among them; but when we arrived at the point of exchange, a place about twenty miles south of Atlanta, on account of some disagreement between the commissioners, only five hundred were exchanged; we were not of this numb
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1860. (search)
I do not know how to express the deep and singular impression his face made upon me; an expression pure and almost saintly was blended with that of the true knight and heroic soldier. He left home while yet lame, declining the offer of an extended furlough, and reported at the Paroled Camp at St. Louis. Waiting there, in patriotic impatience, he was at length exchanged, and hastened, with overflowing gladness, to rejoin his regiment, then advancing in the campaign through Georgia under Sherman. About a month afterwards, on the 27th of June, at Kenesaw Mountain, he was ordered to lead his regiment, at the head of an assaulting column, against the enemy's works; and while in front of his men, with waving sword, cheering them on, he fell by the showering bullets of the intrenched sharpshooters. The body, recovered under flag of truce the next day, was found within a few feet of the Rebel works, pierced by eleven balls. It was taken within the Union lines and buried there. Colone
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1861. (search)
irsting for the languages, he takes lessons in French three times a week, and withal bends vigorously to the law. His belief in the ultimate triumph of the national cause is strong; and his mind, assured by the reading of Buckle, watches with tranquillity, though with deep interest, the march of fate. He sees that the negro must fight, and that the peace traitors of the North are the most dangerous foes of liberty. In October he was obliged to abandon the thought of West Point, and Senator Sherman advised him to enter into active service. To this he was also urged by a vague sense of duty and the example of his mates, but reason and conscience forbade; and hence arose the greatest struggle of his life. While the policy of the government appeared to him disgraceful and the war not yet wholly for the right, his heart could not participate in the conflict. He turned for advice to his father, who counselled (not bade) him to remain quiet for the present. He so decided, but with
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1862. (search)
in Virginia by the army of Grant, and in the South by the army of Sherman. None looked forward to the happy termination more eagerly than dthe Second Massachusetts was ordered to the West, and took part in Sherman's famous march. He was absent for a time on recruiting service, tcheerful aspect. Last week the various corps were reviewed by General Sherman. The review took place in one of the principal streets, and I my calls. I had the honor and pleasure of shaking hands with General Sherman,—Tecumseh, as he is commonly called by the soldiers. The GeneRailroad, will be, I suppose, our first objective point. That General Sherman commands the army is sufficient guaranty that there will be liwing officer, General E. Slocum pointed out Captain Grafton to General Sherman, mentioning, I think, that he was your brother, and telling hiat a fine officer he was. On the night of the battle some one told Sherman that he had been killed that morning. The General said, What, tha
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1863. (search)
nd shouting encouragement to them, he was hit in the neck, and fell again. The line was repulsed, and his body was never recovered. A writer in the Boston Daily Advertiser for December 4, 1865, under date of Charleston, November 25th, gives the following account of the battle:— Your readers may remember that Major-General Foster despatched General Hatch with some four thousand men, in November last, to cut the Charleston and Savannah Railroad, and offer another objective point to Sherman, then coming from Atlanta shoreward. The expedition landed at Boyd's Neck, on Broad River, and marched inland eight miles, encountering the enemy (about two thousand two hundred strong) . . . . at Honey Hill, on the Grahamsville Road. In the fight which ensued, miserable generalship won us as rare a defeat as the whole war has witnessed, we losing over twelve hundred men to the Rebels' forty. The Massachusetts Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth infantry were engaged. . . . . My object in revis
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1864. (search)
hes, and battles of the long and glorious march from Atlanta to Savannah, and from Savannah to Raleigh. He took part in Sherman's grand parade at Washington, where he remained for several weeks on provost duty. He returned to Boston in July, 1865,destruction of the railroad between Chattanooga and Atlanta, during Hood's march to the North for the purpose of cutting Sherman's communications, he reached his regiment and was mustered in October 25, 1864. The Second Massachusetts formed part of the Twentieth Army Corps, in the left wing of Sherman's army, which left Atlanta about the middle of November, on its march to the sea. Lieutenant Storrow, in his Captain's absence, commanded his company through the whole campaign, until after tn consists of but eight or ten thousand men, mostly raw. He gives an exceedingly graphic picture of the way in which Sherman's army reduced the destruction of railways almost to a branch of scientific engineering. camp Second Massachusett
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, Biographical Index. (search)
arah B., II. 172. Sheafe Family, II. 275. Shelton, E. E., Lieut., II. 137. Sheridan, P. H., Maj.-Gen., I. 296, 297;, 298, 299, 301, 303; II. 69, 129;. Sherman, Dr., I. 187. Sherman, J., Hon., II. 239. Sherman, W. T., Maj.-Gen., II. 56, 59;, 130, 266, 271, 272, 273, 437, 445, 446. Sherwin, Thomas, II. 207. SSherman, J., Hon., II. 239. Sherman, W. T., Maj.-Gen., II. 56, 59;, 130, 266, 271, 272, 273, 437, 445, 446. Sherwin, Thomas, II. 207. Shields, James, Maj.-Gen., II. 257. Shurtleff, Benjamin, Dr., II. 42. Shurtleff, N. B., Dr., II. 42. Shurtleff, N. B., Jr., Capt., Memoir, II. 42 -51. Also, I. 24, 25;; II. 50, 51;. Shurtleff, Sarah S., II. 42. Sickles, Daniel E., Maj.-Gen., I. 140, 220;; II. 72, 73;, 235. Sigel, Franz, Maj.-Gen., I. 244; II. 170.Sherman, W. T., Maj.-Gen., II. 56, 59;, 130, 266, 271, 272, 273, 437, 445, 446. Sherwin, Thomas, II. 207. Shields, James, Maj.-Gen., II. 257. Shurtleff, Benjamin, Dr., II. 42. Shurtleff, N. B., Dr., II. 42. Shurtleff, N. B., Jr., Capt., Memoir, II. 42 -51. Also, I. 24, 25;; II. 50, 51;. Shurtleff, Sarah S., II. 42. Sickles, Daniel E., Maj.-Gen., I. 140, 220;; II. 72, 73;, 235. Sigel, Franz, Maj.-Gen., I. 244; II. 170. Simmons, C. F., Adjt., Memoir, I. 50-58. Simmons, David A., I. 51. Simmons, G. F., Rev., I. 50. Simmons, Lucia, I. 50. Simmons, William, I. 50. Simonds, C. S., Capt., I. 186. Simpkins, W. H., Capt., II. 202, 461;, 462, 463, 465. Slocum, H. W., Maj.-Gen., II. 273. Smith, D. P., II. 161. Smith, Elbridge