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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1852. (search)
ot be followed by performance, he now announced his purpose, and immediately set about its execution. In three days after his application for a commission, he had raised the requisite number of men, and was appointed Captain in the Thirty-fifth Regiment, then in process of formation, on the 13th of August. On the 21st, the day before his departure for the war, he was married to Miss Sarah R. Fiske, daughter of Augustus H. Fiske, Esq., an eminent lawyer, at the latter's country residence in Weston. On the 22d of August the regiment left for the war. There was no more noticeable man in its ranks than Captain Willard, marching with stately figure through the eager, crowded streets, to enter upon a mode of life that had little in it to attract him, his face sobered by the duty which separated him from all he loved, but set with a resolution that never looked back; an untried commander, with men even more untried, hastening to the field when the country's peril was greatest. He rece
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1854. (search)
e returned the ponderous volumes to the library at Cambridge, and have settled with the steward. I have been studying hard at Kent and Greenleaf ever since I left you, and making myself generally miserable thereby. I have not the health for such study, if I had the taste, which is also wanting. As you may guess, I have taken to farming. The last two weeks have been spent in looking for a farm near Boston. I have not yet fully decided on the spot; and to-morrow I have a farm to visit in Weston and one in Concord, but the situation I like best of those I have seep is one on the Blue Hill. The spot at length selected was in Ashland, Massachusetts. In his eagerness to become a farmer he attached no importance to the absence of congenial companions. Perhaps his thoughts turned to the solitude of nature with the anticipation of freedom and relief from the painful pressure of social forms. He selected the place he thought best adapted to farming, and began his new enterprise with
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1860. (search)
came the call for nine months volunteers, and Weston was one of the first to respond, enlisting fro back they met Lieutenant T. of Company F, and Weston saw the rebuke in the officer's eye as it ligh soul. To shine in the company of which George Weston was at this time a member was in itself a ighteenth Massachusetts Regiment was issued to Weston by Governor Andrew on March 4, 1863, and in th on the 18th of April. The history of Lieutenant Weston, from May to November of 1863, is identiy sense of the character and services of Lieutenant Weston during the period of his service as an o difficult this army has ever performed, Lieutenant Weston, although suffering from severe illness,ather rejoiced in it. From the story of George Weston's life, short and simple as it is, the maiinning love. One friend says in writing to Mrs. Weston:— God made you the mother of one who with all with whom he came in contact. George Weston entered the army just as he was completing[14 more...]
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, Biographical Index. (search)
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, Weston, Eliza A., II. 199. Weston, George, Lieut., Memior, II 199-206. Weyman, Isabella, 1. 193. Wharton, Miss, I. 3. Wheeler, MoWeston, Eliza A., II. 199. Weston, George, Lieut., Memior, II 199-206. Weyman, Isabella, 1. 193. Wharton, Miss, I. 3. Wheeler, Moses, II. 38. Wheeler, Gen. (Rebel service), II. 271. Wheelwright, Charles Henry, Surgeon, Memoir, I. 29-37. Wheelwright, H. B., I. 346. Wheelwright, Lot, I. 29. Wheelwright, Susannah Wilson, L 29. White, B. H., II. 56, 57;. White, Caroline Story, I. 20. White, D. A., Hon., I. 358. White, Eliza Amelia, I.Weston, George, Lieut., Memior, II 199-206. Weyman, Isabella, 1. 193. Wharton, Miss, I. 3. Wheeler, Moses, II. 38. Wheeler, Gen. (Rebel service), II. 271. Wheelwright, Charles Henry, Surgeon, Memoir, I. 29-37. Wheelwright, H. B., I. 346. Wheelwright, Lot, I. 29. Wheelwright, Susannah Wilson, L 29. White, B. H., II. 56, 57;. White, Caroline Story, I. 20. White, D. A., Hon., I. 358. White, Eliza Amelia, I. 150. White, J., Brig.-Gen., II. 139,141. White, Moses, Major, I. 150. White, Stephen, I. 20. White, William, I. 252. Whiting, W. H. C., Gen. (Rabel serrice, I. 213. Whittemore, Anna, I. 379. Whittemore, B. F., Rev., I. 69. Whittemore, George, I. 379. Whittemore, George, Jr., Memoir, I. 379, 388;. Whi