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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1858. (search)
manoeuvres, which resulted in the battle of Bristoe, where Warren thoroughly repulsed A. P. Hill. Warren's Second Division did this work, and the Twentieth captured two of the five guns there taken. Soon after, Patten marched with the army to Mine Run; and his regiment, deployed as skirmishers, drove in the enemy's skirmishers at Robertson's Tavern with memorable rapidity. Patten's days were now nearly numbered. He came back from Mine Run with a debilitating disease of the bowels, almost Mine Run with a debilitating disease of the bowels, almost surely fastened upon him for life. One whiff of fresh Northern air was all he would allow himself. Against the remonstrances of friends, he rushed back to camp the moment he had strength to perform the smallest part of his duties. On the 24th of January, 1864, he writes:— my dear mother,—It is indeed a rare luxury to receive a letter both from mother and——in one week. I am duly grateful. There is nothing to excite your sympathy for the poor soldier just at present, except his lo
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1859. (search)
had seen him in the field and in command of a company during the most trying campaign (although a short one) that I had, or have ever experienced. Henry thus describes the crisis of this campaign,—the time spent before the works of the enemy on Mine Run:— It was a most thrilling sight, though, to see the look of determination and resignation to their fate, whatever it might be, as they were drawn up in line of battle under the crest of a hill which screened us from the enemy's sight. We our respective companies, called our men about us in a circle and gave our orders. General Macy, after describing the terrible cold, the rain, the mud of that campaign, and the dreadful suspense of the time spent before the enemy's works at Mine Run, says:— During all this time Henry bore himself with even exuberant cheerfulness. . . . . I can only repeat, that his constant cheerfulness, his perfect devotion to his work and duties, and his entire forgetfulness of self, endeared him to<
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1860. (search)
le. Major Abbott waited till they were within a few paces, and then delivered a fire that crushed the line in his front. The regiments on his right and left were equally successful. The enemy, who belonged to the corps of A. P. Hill, fell back, leaving their dead and wounded on the ground, and our men, following them up, seized five guns and brought them off. Two of them, the first that were taken, were secured by a company of Abbott's command. Abbott was present with his regiment at Mine Run, at the close of November in the same year. His regiment, deployed as skirmishers, and covering the front of the whole division, there drove in the enemy's line of skirmishers so rapidly that they did not stop to reload after their first fire. The following morning his regiment took its place in the great storming column. The work before them was known to be awful. For eight hours they bore the terrible suspense of expectation, to the suffering of which every soldier knows that actual b
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1864. (search)
ck, when a shell exploded close to us. A piece passing under my arm struck him a severe blow on the belt. July 5, he wrote from Gettysburg:— Yesterday our band played the national airs amid the shouts of a victorious army. The promotion of his brother David to the rank of Major-General was followed by the promotion of Captain Birney. His commission as Assistant Adjutant-General, with the rank of Major, is dated September 15, 1863. November 30, he sent a pencilled note from Mine Run: We assault the enemy's works at eight A. M. We are to charge up an open slope half a mile long. December 3. Back at Brandy Station. No defeat, but disgraceful failure. On Christmas-day, 1863, Major Birney married Laura, youngest daughter of the late Jacob Strattan, of Philadelphia, —a lady with whom he became acquainted when both were pupils at Eagleswood. It is harder for him now to be away from home than it ever has been before, but he will stay till the good work is done. In Ap