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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, VII. Kansas and John Brown (search)
s to Canada, by paths already familiar to him. All this he explained to me and others, plainly and calmly, and there was nothing in it that we considered either objectionable or impracticable; so that his friends in Boston Theodore Parker, Howe, Stearns, Sanborn, and myself — were ready to cooperate in his plan as thus limited. Of the wider organization and membership afterwards formed by him in Canada we of course knew nothing, nor could we foresee the imprudence which finally perverted the ae the enterprise and return to Kansas, carrying with him $500 in gold, and an order for certain arms at Tabor, which had belonged originally to the State Kansas Committee, but had since been transferred, in consideration of a debt, to our friend Stearns, who gave them to Brown on his own responsibility. Nearly a year now passed, during which I rarely heard from Brown, and thought that perhaps his whole project had been abandoned. A new effort to raise money was made at Boston in the spring of
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative, Preliminary narrative. (search)
egiments of the year 1862. The first colored regiment recruited by any Eastern State was the 54th Mass. (Feb. 9, 1863), commanded by Col. R. G. Shaw, whose subsequent death and burial among his soldiers at Fort Wagner was the most picturesque and striking event in the whole career of this class of troops. This, like the 55th, consisted mainly of free negroes. Later, the large enlistment of colored troops in the slave States was mainly under the charge of Maj.-Gen. G. L. Andrews and Maj. G. L. Stearns, both Massachusetts men. Such also was Maj.-Gen. N. P. Banks, whose organization of the colored troops at New Orleans into the Corps D'Afrique, though in some respects injudiciously planned, His organization of regiments of only half the usual size, with a full complement of officers for each, was peculiarly unfortunate; for it created the impression that the new levies offered peculiar difficulties in respect to drill and discipline, an impression which proved quite opposite to the
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Condensed history of regiments., Fifty-fourth regiment Massachusetts Infantry. (search)
during its formation, and was commissioned colonel April 17. All the commissioned officers except the chaplain were white until the muster of Lieut. S. A. Swails, May 14, 1864. Recruiting began in Boston on February 9; men were also sent from Philadelphia, but the larger part of the members were obtained through the efforts of a recruiting committee appointed by Governor Andrew, which drew its recruits from stations established from Boston to St. Louis, largely under the direction of Maj. G. L. Stearns. Four companies having been mustered into service at Readville, March 30, three on April 23 and the remaining three May 13, the regiment left the State May 28, 1863, to join General Hunter's forces in the Department of the South. Reaching Hilton Head, S. C., June 3, it was ordered to Beaufort and afterward to St. Simon's Island, Ga., forming part of a brigade under Colonel Montgomery of the 2d S. C. Regiment. Returning to Hilton Head June 25, it was ordered to James Island in July, a
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died., Index of names of persons. (search)
421 St. Antoine, Gilbert, 421 Stanton, Charles, 552 Stantor, Francis, 421 Staples, E. B., 164 Staples, E. C., 421 Staples, E. M., 552 Staples, George, 2d Mass. Inf., 421 Staples, George, 2d Mass. H. A., 552 Staples, Lucius, 421 Starkey, Abel, 421 Starr, J. J., 494 Starrett, J. L., 421 Start, Thomas, 552 Staten, E. H., 327 Staten, Henry, 421 Stead, James, 494 Steadman, William, 481 Steadson, Walter, 552 Stearns, C. A., 421 Stearns, F. A., 47, 421 Stearns, G. F., 481 Stearns, G. L., 82, 294 Stearns, N. D., 552 Stearns, S. W., 421 Stebbins, J. T., 421 Stebbins, J. W., 421 Stedman, C. H., 481 Stedman, J. S., 438 Stedman, Joseph, 275 Stedman, W. J., 422 Steel, Frank, 552 Steele, David, 552 Steele, G. A., 421 Steere, Joseph, 421 Steffens, Anton, 421 Steinhart, J. W., 552 Steinhoffe, August, 481 Steinwehr, Adolph von, 94, 100, 105, 258 Stephens, Alexander, 481 Stephens, E. A. E., 421 Stephens, J. M., 421 Stephens, John, 481 Stephenson, John, 552 St