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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 126 124 Browse Search
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain 97 1 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 92 18 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 68 4 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 2: Two Years of Grim War. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 45 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 44 12 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 33 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 30 4 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 23 1 Browse Search
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War 20 14 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1833 (search)
ened in him an irresistible longing to mingle his tears with those of his wife and surviving children. It was during this brief absence that his regiment was for the first time set upon the perilous edge of battle in the disastrous affair of Cedar Mountain, August 9th, where that gallant and promising young officer, Captain Shurtleff, was killed, and where so many of our beautiful and brave of the Second Massachusetts Regiment poured out their precious blood. It was a source of regret to Coloe of the men was shot, and the other, seeing the enemy close upon him, sought safety in flight. Colonel Webster was perfectly helpless, and Lieutenant Haviland, still suffering from an injury received from his horse having fallen upon him at Cedar Mountain, could do no more than find a place of shelter for the dying man under a bush in a little hollow. No one could be found to carry him away, and messages sent for a surgeon proved ineffectual. Colonel Webster desired his friend to leave him,
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1854. (search)
Richard Chapman Goodwin. Captain 2d Mass. Vols. (Infantry), May 24, 1861; killed at Cedar Mountain, Va., August 9, 1862. Richard Chapman, the eldest child of Ozias and Lucy (Chapman) Goodwinl, September 17, 1862; died at Charlottesville, Va., October 22, 1862, of wounds received at Cedar Mountain, August 9. James Savage, Jr., the subject of this memoir, was the only son of the Hon. Ja2, was a very hot, sultry day. Our brigade marched from Culpeper to within about one mile of Cedar Mountain, where we halted in a piece of woods. Our artillery was already slightly engaged with the Rl these questions he answered, No. His mind seemed to be at peace. The terrible news of Cedar Mountain battle, which was to cast a gloom over many households, came almost too fast to the anxious sword clove to his hand. And this prediction he well fulfilled at Newtown, Winchester, and Cedar Mountain. Robert Shaw wrote, after the death of his friend:—-- There is no life like the one
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1856. (search)
writer of this notice is one of them,—knew him to be amiable, generous, honorable in his intentions, and without malice in his heart. Many have mourned that his early promise should have been clouded by physical disease and lost in premature death; yet it is their satisfaction to remember that he gave his life to the cause of freedom and his country. Stephen George Perkins. Second Lieutenant 2d Mass. Vols. (Infantry), July 8, 1861; first Lieutenant July 11, 1862; killed at Cedar Mountain, Va., August 9, 1862. I approach with infinite reluctance one of the most difficult themes for biography to be embraced in these volumes. There hung around Stephen Perkins a peculiar atmosphere, not merely suggestive of admiration, not merely of affection, but of some indescribable commingling of the two, more subtile than either, which renders his most intimate friends unwilling to attempt his portraiture, and thus leaves the task for me. And I, his cousin and his teacher, can hardly
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1859. (search)
track by a sarcastic remark about the motives of generous people. His remains were buried on the field, and in the summer of 1865 were removed to Hollywood Cemetery, near Richmond, on the north bank of the James,—looking down upon the scene of his last fight from the walls of the city, for the possession of which more blood was perhaps shed than for any other historic stronghold. Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff. Captain 12th Mass. Vols. (Infantry), June 26, 1861; killed at Cedar Mountain, Va., August 9, 1862. Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff, Jr. was born in Boston, March 6, 1838. His father, Dr. Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff, was the son of Dr. Benjamin Shurtleff, who for many years was an eminent physician of Boston, but originally from Plymouth County, where his ancestors, as well as those of his wife, Sally (Shaw) Shurtleff, had dwelt since the earliest days of the Colony, having crossed in the first Pilgrim vessels. His mother, Sarah Eliza (Smith) Shurtleff, was t
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1860. (search)
ward Gardner Abbott. Captain 2d Mass. Vols. (Infantry), May 24, 1861; Brevet Major, August 9, 1862; killed at Cedar Mountain, Va., August 9, 1862. Edward Gardner Abbott, eldest son of Hon. Josiah Gardner and Caroline (Livermore) Abbott, was om his first manly interview with me in my office in Boston until I looked upon his dead body upon the fatal field of Cedar Mountain. Of the fourteen officers killed, wounded, and prisoners out of this single regiment in this action, none behaved wid he was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Second Massachusetts Volunteers, which had just immortalized itself at Cedar Mountain. The evening of August 17th found the young lieutenant with his regiment at Culpeper, in temporary command of Companles F. Choate, Esqs. In the summer of 1862, and about the time of the disasters to Pope's army and the battles of Cedar Mountain and Manassas, came the call for nine months volunteers, and Weston was one of the first to respond, enlisting from th
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1861. (search)
an interest in their sending their money home, and so encourage it. I want them to feel I am interested in them, and will do what I can to assist them. At Cedar Mountain he had his first taste of battle. He writes:— I was ordered to mount Joe, and take an order to the wagon-train. When I returned the regiment had movedd of the march. . . . . We have just had forty-two recruits arrive here this morning. They looked so hot and miserable, I could not help pitying them. At Cedar Mountain he was in his place, and encountered with his comrades the perils which thinned the ranks of his regiment so sadly on that fatal day. He was shot through his this battle, and was sent home on furlough for a time. While at home he received a commission as Captain, bearing date August 10th, vice Williams, killed at Cedar Mountain. He returned before his wound was fully healed, and joined his regiment before the battle of Antietam, in which he took part, rendering good service. He was
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, Appendix. (search)
Appendix. I. Number of Harvard students in the Union Army and Navy. [from the roll published with the Triennial Catalogue for 1866.] TotalDied in service Academical Department,—Graduates,47573 Non-graduates11422 —— Total,58995 Professional Schools,34922 —— Total,938117 Ii. Causes of death. Killed in action (or died of wounds received) at Gettysburg, Pa,10 Antietam, Md,7 Fredericksburg, Va,5 each Cedar Mountain, Va, Fort Wagner, S C,3 each Bull Run, Va, Chancellorsville, Va, The Wilderness, Va,2 each Port Hudson, La, Glendale, Va, Honey Hill, S C, Averysborough (Black Creek), N C,) Aldie, Bellfield, Carrsville, Cold Harbor, Cedar Creek, Deep Bottom, Drury's Bluff, Hatcher's Run, Petersburg, Rappahannock Station, Spottsylvania, Va.; Boykm's Mills, S. C.; Hartsville, Lookout Mountain, Pittsburg Landing, Tenn.; Whitestone Hill. Dakotah.1 each Total killed in action63 Killed by guerillas,4 Killed accidentally,2 Total died by