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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 5 1 Browse Search
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 1 1 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 1 1 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1853. (search)
I don't like display, but I think this appropriate, do not you? The Chaplain assented; and he added, I have lived a soldier, I die a soldier, I wish to be buried as a soldier. To another member of the regiment, a son of his clergyman, the Rev. John S. Stone, he said that he wished Dr. Stone, as his minister, to receive his last message in case he did not live to reach home and talk with him. He said: Tell him I am ready to die. I look back upon the past with many regrets for failings and forDr. Stone, as his minister, to receive his last message in case he did not live to reach home and talk with him. He said: Tell him I am ready to die. I look back upon the past with many regrets for failings and for misused opportunities, but still with the self-respect of a man who has tried to do his best. As for the future, there is but one hope, no putting forth of one's own claims, but reliance on the merits of Another: you know what I mean. He was placed in an ambulance for the night. The men lay around it. At daybreak his wounds were dressed. He examined them in a cool, naive manner. Looking at the hole through the forearm, he said: Now that's a very neat little wound, a proper wound; but th
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1854. (search)
nal arm, at least by the grand sword-arm of his country. He was promoted to be Major of the Regiment on June 13, 1862 (Lieut.-Colonel, Sept. 17); and it is the testimony of all that the period immediately after this was almost the happiest of his life. His health was good, his gayety overflowing, all diffidence and despondency disappeared, the country in which they were encamped was beautiful, and his daily rides, in the society of his favorite companions (Shaw, Russell, Copeland, and Dr. Stone), were a constant delight. The latter writes:— I think James was never more happy since the time he joined the army than in the short time he acted as Major after receiving his commission. The fatigue of marching was not to be compared with what he had to bear while in the line. It was only his strong determination to keep up and do his duty that prevented him many times while in the line from going in an ambulance, as I often tried to persuade him to do. At Little Washington he enj