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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter army life and camp drill (search)
of emancipation. In this view I am thankful for the defeat. Charles Devens left here with his regiment last week. . .. I think W. Phillips adroitly applied the term contraband-of-war to captured slaves. Devens was United States Marshal at the time of the Sims case, and althougn immense strength in the next decisive battle, when it comes. Charles Devens smoked a cigar quietly, perhaps to reassure his men, during theat was by no means a superior regiment in material or in officers. Devens was much depressed about it when he went away. ... Think, too, o going into the fight when almost too ill to stand. June 20 Charles Devens is here and I went to see him yesterday — he looks well, and mortially corked up. Jacksonville, Fla., March 24 I remember Charles Devens saying that he never had felt such unutterable relief as when C with him, but simply that he lifted the load of responsibility off Devens's shoulders; and after that he had merely to fight and obey orders
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rof., Alpheus, 40, 41. Curson, Mrs., 6. Curtis, George William, described 46; slavery attitude, 71, 72. Curtis, Judge, 70. Cushing, Mrs., Betsey, 34, 35 Cushman, Charlotte S., 244, 265. D Dabneys, the; of Fayal, 125, 126, 133, 134, 136, 137; letter to, about Kansas, 142-44. Dame, Mrs., and Newport boardinghouse, 235, 246, 264. Dana, Charles, described, 13, 14, 46. Darley, Felix O. C., the artist, 147. Davis, Andrew Jackson, 109, 110. Davis, Jefferson, 205. Devens, Charles, 156, 157; at Manassas, 159; wounded, 168. Dicey, Albert, at Newport, 229. Dickinson, Emily, 268; poems, 331, 332. Dilke, Sir, Charles, 276. Disunion, Worcester Convention, 77-79; Quincy on, 88, 89. Dodge, Mary Mapes, 228. Dunlap, Sergeant, 171. Durant, Henry F., founder of Wellesley, 70, 71. E Earle, Thomas, in Civil War, 166, 167. Emancipation, 164. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, letter to, 33; Channing on, 42; proposed lecture of, 59; described, 93. Everetts, the