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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XII: the Black regiment (search)
the regiment too soon, and finding on his return an accumulation of work, and a visible loosening of discipline, he exerted himself beyond his strength. He wrote to Dr. Rogers who had been obliged to resign on account of ill health:— Headquarters, 1st S. C.V. Aug. 22, 1863. My Dear Doctor: You may thank your stars if you have any love for this regiment that I did come back before I felt fit to do it—for if ever a family of grown up babies needed a papa, this was the one. To be sureware to-morrow morning. So that matter is settled. The officers and men were all very desirous to go and I should have been sorry had we not done so. To Dr. Rogers, Colonel Higginson wrote an account of this plan and its outcome: Headquarters, 1st S. C.V., Camp Shaw, Beaufort, S. C., Feb. 20, 1864. Such a time as we have had this last fortnight. Sent out on picquet Monday—sitting in great hilarity on Wednesday eve, with a blazing fire, and suddenly summoned back by telegraph th<