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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 2 (search)
. Engaged in the expedition to Springfield, Mo. Senior Aide-de-Camp, staff of General Lyon; President of Court-Martial; engaged in the battles of Dug Springs, Mo.; Wilson's Creek, Mo., where he was wounded. Aide-de-Camp, staff of Major S. D. Sturgis. Lieut. Colonel, 19th Mo. Infantry, Aug. 30, 1861. In command Provost Guard, St. Louis, Mo.; ordered to Benton Barracks; regiment consolidated with 3d Mo. Infantry. Colonel, 3d Mo. Infantry (Lyon regiment), Jan. 18, 1862. On expedition to Helena, Ark., Mar.–July, 1862; in charge of brigade; on expedition to Pilot Knob and Ironton, Mo.; in the movement of Sherman against Vicksburg, Dec. 2, 1862; battles of Chickasaw Bayou, Miss.; Arkansas Post; Deer Creek, Miss., expedition; expedition to Black Bayou. In command of 1st Miss. Regiment Volunteers of African descent, afterwards 51st U. S. Colored Infantry, and of all troops of African descent in that vicinity. Colonel, 51st U. S. Colored Infantry, May 9, 1863. Brig. General, U. S. Volunt
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 4 (search)
enant, Sept. 8, 1863. Entered the Veteran Reserve Corps, as Captain, Oct. 24, 1863. Assigned successively to 20th, 19th and 6th Regiments, Veteran Reserve Corps. Discharged, June 30, 1866. Riggs, Edgar M. Second Lieutenant, 35th Mass. Infantry, Sept. 8, 1864. Mustered out, June 9, 1865. Riley, John. First Lieutenant, 28th Mass. Infantry, Oct. 8, 1861. Discharged (disability), Oct. 31, 1862. Ripley, Ezra. First Lieutenant, 29th Mass. Infantry, July 24, 1861. Died at Helena, Ark., July 28, 1863, of disease contracted in the service. Ripley, John. Captain, 12th Mass. Infantry, June 26, 1861. Died, Dec. 20, 1862, of wounds received in action at Cedar Mountain, Va. Ripley, Thomas W. Second Lieutenant, 34th Mass. Infantry, Aug. 6, 1862. First Lieutenant, Adjutant, July 29, 1863. Mustered out, June 16, 1865. Ritchie, George M. First Lieutenant, 19th Mass. Infantry, Oct. 6, 1864. Captain, June 1, 1865. Mustered out, June 30, 1865. Ritchie, John.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 8 (search)
La. Cavalry, Oct. 15, 1864. Brevet Colonel, U. S. Volunteers, Mar. 26, 1865. Mustered out, Dec. 18, 1865. Bailey, Clarence S. Sergeant, 3d Mass. Cavalry, Sept. 30, 1861. Commissioned in 2d La. Cavalry, Oct. 8, 1863. Captain, 2d La. Cavalry, May 12, 1864. Mustered out by reason of consolidation, Sept. 7, 1864. Baldwin, Luke, Jr. Born in Massachusetts. First Lieutenant, Regimental Quartermaster, 24th Iowa Infantry, Sept. 9, 1862; mustered, Sept. 17, 1862. Died of disease at Helena, Ark., Mar. 1, 1863. Baldwin, Thomas C. Born in Massachusetts. Private, 7th Iowa Infantry, July 23, 1861. First Sergeant, Nov. 15, 1861. Second Lieutenant, Apr. 18, 1862. First Lieutenant, June 8, 1862. Dismissed by sentence of General Court Martial, Dec. 21, 1862. （Adj. General's Report of Iowa, 1867, p. 81.) Ball, Benjamin Absalom. Second Lieutenant, 53d N. Y. Infantry, Sept. 23, 1861. Mustered out, Mar. 21, 1862. First Lieutenant, 3d Unattached Company, Mass. Heavy Artillery
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, XIV. Massachusetts women in the civil war. (search)
ntil her shipments of goods exceeded $17,000, while in money she forwarded as much more. Miss Maria R. Mann, a near relative of the Hon. Horace Mann, first secretary of the Board of Education of Massachusetts, left her pleasant New England home during the first year of the war, and went to St. Louis to aid in the work of the western commission. She remained till near the close of the war, engaged in most arduous work in the hospitals, and among the colored people and white refugees of Helena, Ark. She was sustained in her work by the contributions of New England women, mostly in Massachusetts, who not only supplied her with money, but with several thousand dollars' worth of garments, material for clothing, furniture, medicines, stoves, etc., Rev. Dr. Eliot at St. Louis acting as treasurer of a special fund for this purpose. The Boston Sewing Circle was organized in Boston, November, 1862, and maintained a membership to the end of the war of from one hundred and fifty to two hund