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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), Index. (search)
187. Constitution, U. S., passage of 13th Amendment to, 188. Contrabands, anecdotes of the, 158: donations for, 165. Conway, Martin F., of Kansas, 168. Correggio's Diana, Toschi's engraving of, 70. Countess of Rudolstaat, The, a novel, 62. Crawford, Mr., of London, 12. Cumaean Sibyl, by Domenichino, 57. Curtis, George William, 79: oration of, 85 ; conducts Sunday services, 233; letter on caucus dictation, 252. D. Davis, Jeff., 152. De Stael, Madame, 247. Devens, Charles, redeems Thomas Sims from slavery, 189. Domenichino's Cumaean Sibyl, 57. Douglass, Frederick, 259. Draft riots of 1863 in New York, 178. Dresel, Mrs., Anna Loring, letter to, 191. Dresser, Amos, publicly flogged at Nashville, Tenn., 184. Dwight, John S., 29, 37, 50. E. Eclectic review, The, VIII. Education of women in Egypt and India, the, 212, 213. Elssler, Fanny, 385. Emancipation Proclamation, 171. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, attitude of the Unitarians towar
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, chapter 4 (search)
indolent, profligate, and quarrelsome; and they were almost wholly responsible for the town and gown quarrels, now extinct, but then not infrequent. Contributing sometimes the most brilliant young men to the Law School, they furnished also a number who, having been brought up on remote plantations and much indulged, had remained grossly ignorant. I remember one in particular who was supposed to have entered the Law School, but who proved to be taking private lessons in something from Charles Devens, afterwards judge and major-general. A mystery hung about the matter till it was found that the youth, who was as showy as any of his companions in dress and bearing, was simply learning to read and write. Let us now turn back to the condition of intellectual affairs. The entrance examination of those days was by no means the boys' play that is sometimes asserted. It represented, no doubt, a year less of work than the present examination; yet it included some points not now made ob
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, chapter 5 (search)
that the former was habitually addressed as Milord, to a degree that vexed him, by waiters in Continental hotels. Such leaders were doubtless good social models, as was also the case with my brother; but I had more continuous influences in the friendship of two fair girls, both of whom were frank, truthful, and attractive. One of them — Maria Fay of convent fame, already mentioned — was a little older than myself, while the other, just my own age, Mary Devens, was the younger sister of Charles Devens, afterwards eminent in war and peace. She died young, but I shall always be grateful for the good she unconsciously did me; and I had with both the kind of cordial friendship, without a trace of love-making, yet tinged with refined sentiment, which is for every young man a most fortunate school. They counseled and reprimanded and laughed at me, when needful, in a way that I should not have tolerated from boys at that time, nor yet from my own sisters, wise and judicious though these we
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, V. The fugitive slave epoch (search)
to be done at the trial itself. And yet all sorts of fantastic and desperate projects crossed the minds of those few among us who really, so to speak, meant business. I remember consulting Ellis Gray Loring, the most eminent lawyer among the Abolitionists, as to the possibility of at least gaining time by making away with the official record from the Southern court, a document which lay invitingly at one time among lawyers' papers on the table. Again, I wrote a letter to my schoolmate Charles Devens, the United States marshal, imploring him to resign rather than be the instrument of sending a man into bondage,--a thing actually done by one of the leading Boston policemen. It is needless to say to those who knew him that he answered courteously and that he reserved his decision. No other chance opening, it seemed necessary to turn all attention to an actual rescue of the prisoner from his place of confinement. Like Shadrach, Thomas Sims was not merely tried in the United States C
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, chapter 10 (search)
ing quite undesirable. Coming back to Worcester, I was offered the majorship of the Fourth Battalion of Infantry, then hastily called into the United States service; and when I declined this, the position was offered to my old schoolmate, Charles Devens, who, though almost wholly ignorant of military drill, accepted it on condition that our best local drill-master, Captain Goodhue, should go with him as adjutant. My reasons for not accepting were various: first, that I doubted my competencylitary commission would have been for me intolerable, since I might have been ordered to deliver up fugitive slaves to their masters,--as had already happened to several officers. I have often thought what a difference it might have made in both Devens's life and mine if I had accepted this early opportunity. I might have come out a major-general, as he did; but I dare say that the government gained by the exchange a better soldier than it lost. Meanwhile I went on drilling and taking fencing
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, Index. (search)
. Cushing, Caleb, 127. Cutter, Calvin, ‘97. Cuvier, Baron G. C. L. D. de, 251, 272. Dana, C. A., 83, 84, xoI. Dana, R. H., 21, 53, 136, 137, 161. Dante degli Alighieri, 76, soI, 289. D'Arc, Jeanne, 301, 309. D'Arlon, 29. Darmesteter, Madame, 289. Darwin, Charles, 194, 272, 283, 284, 285, 286, 292, 296. Darwin, Mrs., Charles, 284. Davis, C. H., 19. Davis, Helen, 18. Davis, Margaret, 37. Demosthenes, 298. De Quincey, Thomas, 102. Deschanel, Emile, 301, 303. Devens, Charles, 48, 74, 141, 247. Devens, Mary, 74. De Vere, Aubrey, 272. Dial, The, 114. Dicey, Albert, 97. Dickens, Charles, 187, 234. Discharged convict, reform of, 191. Dix, Dorothea L., 264. Dobson, Susanna, S5. Dombey, Paul, 187. Douglas, S. A., 239. Douglass, Frederick, 127, 173, 327. Downes, Commodore, 242. Doy, Doctor, 233. Drew Thomas, z56, 163. Du Maurier, George, 289. Durant, H. F., 63, 88. Dwight, John, 18. Edgeworth, Maria, 15. Eleanore, Tennyson's, 296. E
A. J. Bennett, private , First Massachusetts Light Battery, The story of the First Massachusetts Light Battery , attached to the Sixth Army Corps : glance at events in the armies of the Potomac and Shenandoah, from the summer of 1861 to the autumn of 1864., Chapter 2: (search)
e, impetuous Kearney now arrived before Seven Pines, deployed a brigade to the left so as to have a flank fire upon the Confederate lines, which retarded the pursuit in that direction, held the position until after dark, then, being separated by its movement from the main body, the brigade fell back, circuitously, the commander bringing the force in good order within the Federal lines. At six o'clock Gen. Sumner reached Gen. Couch's position, with Sedgwick's division; before his arrival, Gen. Devens, from the centre of Couch's line, made gallant efforts to regain portions of the lost ground. The road was so muddy that only one battery of Sedgwick's division (Kirby's) could be got in position; the First Minnesota being detailed for protection of the flank, the remaining infantry of the division was formed in line with the aforesaid battery in the centre. Now a tremendous fire was opened by the Confederates all along the line, and charges were made by them, though repulsed with heavy
A. J. Bennett, private , First Massachusetts Light Battery, The story of the First Massachusetts Light Battery , attached to the Sixth Army Corps : glance at events in the armies of the Potomac and Shenandoah, from the summer of 1861 to the autumn of 1864., Chapter 8: (search)
de.—Brig. Gen. C. E. Pratt, Commanding, 5th Wisconsin, 49th Pennsylvania, 6th Maine, 43d New York, 119th Pennsylvania. Second Brigade.—Col. Henry Whiting, Commanding, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, and 6th Vermont, and 26th New Jersey. Third Brigade.—Brig. Gen. Francis L. Vinton, Commanding, 20th, 33d, 49th, and 77th New York, and 21st New Jersey Volunteers. Artillery. Ayres's F, 5th United States; Snow's B, 1st Maryland; Cowan's 1st New York Battery; Stewart's 3d New York. Third Division. Brig. Gen. John Newton, Commanding. First Brigade.—Brig. Gen. John Cochrane, Commanding, 23d, 61st, and 82d Pennsylvania, 65th, 67th, and 122d New York Volunteers. Second Brigade.—Brig. Gen. Chas. Devens, Commanding, 7th, 10th, and 37th Massachusetts, 2d Rhode Island, and 36th New York Volunteers. Third Brigade.—Col. T. A. Rowley, Commanding, 62d New York, 93d, 98th, 102d, and 139th Pennsylvania Volunteers. Artillery. Butler's G, 2d United States; McCarthy's C, 1st Pe
A. J. Bennett, private , First Massachusetts Light Battery, The story of the First Massachusetts Light Battery , attached to the Sixth Army Corps : glance at events in the armies of the Potomac and Shenandoah, from the summer of 1861 to the autumn of 1864., Alphabetical Index. (search)
90 Bull Run... 28 Camps Cameron and Revere. ... 17, 23 Camps in Winter .... 98, 138, 139 Capitol Hill ......... 21 Cedar Mountain .... 70, 171 Cedar Creek ....... 170, 171 Chaplains .. ... 65, 99, 133, 146 Charlestown ......169 Chickahominy ... 38, 40, 42, 52, 67 Clifton ......... 169,171 Colporteurs .........100 Cold Harbor ... 38, 40, 52, 155, 157 Commissary .... 42, 54, 151, 173 Crampton's Gap ....... 76, 77 Crook, Gen. . 165, 168, 169, 176, 178, 179 Devens, Gen ........ 40 De Peyster, J. Watts. . 113, 118 Duval, Col. ... 176 Desertions .. 103, 104 Dranesville ..... 26, 166 Early, Gen. J. A. 94, 95, 107, 159, 161, 167 East Virginia ... 103, 104, et seq. Edward's Ferry ........ 17 Emancipation Proclamation .. 100 Emory, Gen. W. H. 168, 169, 176-179 Eighth Corps, 168, 169, 170, 174, 176, 178, 179. Fair Oaks .......... 39 French, Gen. ... 39, 53, 108, 143, 145 Fauquier County ....... 132 Fauquier Springs (sulphur)
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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