hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 9 1 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Your search returned 9 results in 3 document sections:

Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1828. (search)
peatedly with his division, and drove the enemy back in disorder, but he was unable to retain his advantage. He was afterwards reinforced, and with six brigades made several other assaults. He fought with the most conspicuous bravery, and had two horses killed under him. At eleven o'clock General Hancock ordered him to withdraw, and there was a lull in the battle until about noon, when Longstreet, who had in the mean time come up, precipitated his force upon Wadsworth's left, and drove back Ward's brigade at that point in some confusion. Wadsworth immediately threw forward his second line, and formed it on the Orange and Fredericksburg Plank-Road, at right angles with his original position. It was while he was trying to hold this line with his own division, then reduced to about sixteen hundred men, that his third horse was shot under him, and he was himself struck in the head by a bullet. The enemy were charging at the time, and took the ground before General Wadsworth could be r
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1842. (search)
of you, and more. . . . . I think we did as well as any regiment in the corps would have done. Not to do so would have been disgraceful to us all, and I would not have my darling mother and loving little sister blush for me. . . . . May 3.—Dr. Ward and I are the only really tough ones. My knock — about out-door life tells now, and I don't wilt down like these shade-grown men. Perhaps my time will come, but certes I was never better than now. . . . . May 7.—It is very hard to blow up antaneously. We remained in the causeway until six o'clock, in close proximity to his dead body, when, the order to fall back having been given, the men of his old company put their muskets under him and carried him to the hospital, where Dr. N. Ward had all the necessary arrangements made. He was laid in a box, wearing, except the coat, the clothes he wore when slain,—wrapped in a blanket, and the coffin filled and covered with green leaves. Our good Quartermaster Mason endeavored to h
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, Biographical Index. (search)
111. Wadsworth, Joseph, I. 1. Wadsworth, William, I. 2, 3;. Walcott Family, I. 3. Walcott, Samuel B., I. 20. Walcott, W. H., Capt., II. 407, 408;. Walker, James, Rev. Dr., L 254, 359, 417, 424. Walker, Wise, & Co., II. 13. Ward, Brig.-Gen., I. 17. Ward, N., Dr., I. 67, 69;. Ware, Helen, I. 221. Ware, John, Dr., I. 221. Ware, Robert, Surgeon, Memoir, I. 221-234. Also, II. 200. Warren, G. K., Maj.-Gen., I. 428. Warren, J. M., Dr., II. 435. Washington,Ward, N., Dr., I. 67, 69;. Ware, Helen, I. 221. Ware, John, Dr., I. 221. Ware, Robert, Surgeon, Memoir, I. 221-234. Also, II. 200. Warren, G. K., Maj.-Gen., I. 428. Warren, J. M., Dr., II. 435. Washington, George, I. 128. Washington, George (Rebel service), II. 434. Wasson, D. A., Rev., I. 188. Webster, Daniel, Hon., I. 3, 20;,21, 23, 62,154. Webster, Fletcher, Col., Memoir, I. 20-28. Also, II. 50, 219;, 221. Webster, Grace, I. 20. Webster, Julia, I. 25. Weems, H. L., I. 128. Weiss, John. Rev., I. 40. Weitzel, G., Maj.-Gen., I. 66. Weld, S. M., I. 132, 327;. Wells, G. D., Colonel, II. 400, 401;, 402, 403. Wells, William, I. 59, 60;. Weston, Calvin, II. 199