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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1849. (search)
ps, to help me in my military views. The following letter shows his first summons to military service. The volunteer corps here indicated was subsequently organized, and he was appointed its Major. It became the nucleus of the Thirteenth Missouri, and he was commissioned as its Colonel, to rank as such from September 1, 1861. After the capture of the regiment at Lexington, its number was given to another corps, and it was ultimately reorganized as the Twenty-fifth Missouri. Headquarters, Department West, St. Louis Arsenal, May 31, 1861. Sir,—I am directed by Brigadier-General Lyon, commanding, to request you to repair at once to Fort Leavenworth, to confer with the commanding officer there in regard to the organization and equipment of a reserve corps in your city. I am, sir, very respectfully, Your obedient servant, Chester Harding, Jr., A. A. G., 1st Brig. Mo. Vols. To E. Peabody, Esq., St. Joseph, Missouri. Major Champion Vaughan wrote soon after t
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1852. (search)
s certainly no worse. The modesty with which, in his letters, he always disparages his own share in the work which was going on is very remarkable, when compared with the real importance of his labors and responsibilities, as shown not merely by the facts themselves which he narrates, but by the evidence of his superiors and associates. When inclined to be discontented, he consoles himself thus:— Sometimes when I go from our dirty, carpetless rooms up to the handsome offices at Headquarters, and find the other aids finishing up their business for the day at two o'clock, or before, I feel rather like grumbling and calling myself a mere commissary's clerk; but when I think of the matter more seriously, I feel differently. The Sequestration Commission has been, until General Banks's arrival, an institution of almost unlimited power. When I first came here, every one looked upon it and all its officers with a species of awe, as having the fate of nearly all the property within
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1862. (search)
s—Christian, I will call it—seemed to me to give to his influence in the regiment a morale and value even beyond that of his high military example. Its religious effect was invaluable. Be assured, dear sir, that I do not attempt eulogy, when I add, our army has but few left like your beloved son. A letter from the officer commanding his brigade, Colonel Norman J. Hall, written on the field of battle, will indicate the estimation in which he was held by his superior officers. Headquarters, 3D brigade, 2D division, 3D Corps, Gettysburg, Pa., July 5, 1863. my dear Sir,—The painful duty of recording the death of your son has been imposed upon me. He died at his post in battle. We have become so familiar with scenes of blood and death, that our comrades fall besides us, barely claiming the most ordinary rights of burial; but I speak of this brigade at least, when I say that an unusual bereavement has befallen us in the death of your most noble son, and shrouded in de<
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1864. (search)
at Mechanicsville. The fight is still going on. If anything happens to me, let it console you that I am doing my duty in a just cause. You will not be the only sad one. General William Birney gives a picture of him in this battle: In the afternoon of the disastrous affair of Gaines's Hill, as my regiment was marching into the fight, I met Fitzhugh. Ah, brother will, he cried, we have the Rebels this time! What makes you think so? said I, it looks the other way to me. They say so at Headquarters, he answered, and I know they are in high spirits about it. They say we shall bag at least ten thousand. In a few hours the Rebels had bagged many of us, myself among the number. Colonel David B. Birney having become Brigadier-General, Lieutenant Birney wrote, I hope soon to be brother's Aid. August 1, 1862, he was commissioned as Assistant Adjutant-General of the second brigade, of Kearney's division, with the rank of Captain. He added to the duties of this position those of Aid in