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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1854. (search)
d; for that would have, I am sure, an important effect on the campaign of the spring; but in partial burnings I see less justice and less propriety. I was sorry enough the other day that my brigade should have had a part in the hanging and shooting of some of Mosby's men. October 10. I don't think I now care at all about being a Brigadier-General. I am perfectly satisfied to be a Colonel, if I can always have a brigade to command. That's modest, is n't it? October 17. [To J. M. Forbes, Esq.] I am very glad that we have not a handy writer among us. The reputation of regiments is made and is known in the army; the comparative merits are well known there. Such a notice as I saw of the—— —— makes a regiment ridiculous, besides giving the public false history. October 17. [To his mother.] If I'm ever taken prisoner, you'll find one fellow who won't think he's badly treated, and won't come home and make the friends of all prisoners sick with his twaddle. . . .
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1860. (search)
tam he writes:— Maryland Heights, September 21, 1862. Dear father,—. . . . We left Frederick on the 14th instant, marched that day and the next to Boonsborough, passing through a gap in the mountain where Burnside had had a fight the day before. On the 16th our corps, then commanded by General Mansfield, took up a position in rear of Sumner's, and lay there all day. The Massachusetts cavalry was very near us. I went over and spent the evening with them, and had a long talk with Forbes about home and friends there. . . . . We lay on his blanket before the fire until nearly ten o'clock, and then I left him, little realizing what a day the next was to be, though a battle was expected; and I thought, as I rode off, that perhaps we should n't see each other again. Fortunately, we have both got through safely so far. At about eleven P. M., Mansfield's corps was moved two or three miles to the right. At one in the morning of the 17th we rested in a wheat-field. Our pickets we
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1862. (search)
utmost confidence in him and attachment to him. On the 3d or 4th of July, Major Forbes received orders to take a detachment of one hundred and fifty men, principalready been sent to draw in the pickets, when the noise of firing commenced. Major Forbes at once detailed a lieutenant and ten men to go and see what the firing was,mn. In a few moments the noise of the firing increased and drew nearer, and Major Forbes led his force across the pike into an open field, and formed them in two ra. Immediately upon the approach of the enemy in a wide and scattered front, Major Forbes gave the order Front rank, first and third platoons deploy as skirmishers, ear them, and the sight of the seemingly overwhelming numbers of the enemy. Major Forbes, seeing their condition, decided to draw them off into a less exposed positiht flank, march. Once with their backs turned, of course the day was lost. Major Forbes was soon made prisoner, and, as chance would have it, I was by the side of C
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, Biographical Index. (search)
Fletcher, Dr., I. 120. Fletcher, George, II. 426, 427;. Fletcher, G. N., I. 389. Fletcher, Governor, I. 1, 2;. Fletcher, James, II. 426, 427;. Fletcher, Samuel, Lieut., II. 426,427,429,431. Follansbee, A. S., Col., II. 451. Forbes, J. M., I. 300. Forbes W. H., Major, II. 185, 329;, 330. Ford, Antonia J., II. 359. Foster, J. G., Maj.-Gen., I. 231, 233;, 372; II. 264, 370;, 391, 392, 393. Foster, Lieut., II. 252. Fowle, George, I. 307. Fox, Feroline W. . IIForbes W. H., Major, II. 185, 329;, 330. Ford, Antonia J., II. 359. Foster, J. G., Maj.-Gen., I. 231, 233;, 372; II. 264, 370;, 391, 392, 393. Foster, Lieut., II. 252. Fowle, George, I. 307. Fox, Feroline W. . II. 115. Fox, T. B., II. 115. Fox, T B., Jr., Capt., Memoir, II. 115,123. Also, II. 149, 159;. Francis, James, Major, II. 184. Franklin, W. B., Maj.-Gen., I. 144, 213;, 217; II. 168,170. Frazier, D. R., I. 356. Freeman, H , II. 362. Fremont, J. C., Maj.-Gen., . I 162, 364; II. 350. French, E. S., II. 372. Fricker, Lieut., II. 252. Frothingham, E. G., Jr., Dr., II. 35. Frothingham, O. B., Rev., I. 44. Fuller, A. B., Memoir, I. 72-86. Fuller, Margaret, I. 72