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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2 1,239 1,239 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 467 467 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 184 184 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 171 171 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 159 159 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 156 156 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 102 102 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 79 79 Browse Search
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.) 77 77 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Condensed history of regiments. 75 75 Browse Search
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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XI: John Brown and the call to arms (search)
ew—and whether that would have done good or harm, I cannot now say. So far as John Brown is concerned, I should like this for an epitaph, The only one of John Brown's friends and advisers who was not frightened by the silly threats of Hugh Forbes into desiring that year's delay which ruined the enterprise. I had the old man's own assurance that in his secret soul he regarded this delay as an act of timidity—and acted on it only because those who held the purse insisted. Afterwards, in 1862, Mr. Higginson wrote a friend about these stirring events:— I remember in a letter which I thought might be the last I should ever write to you, when I had sent for Montgomery and seven men from Kansas, because I could find nobody in New England, and we lay in wait a fortnight in Harrisburg hoping vainly to penetrate Virginia and rescue Stevens and Hazlett—I remember then telling you how I had always held to a Mohammedan proverb that no prophet is called of God till he has reached the
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XIV: return to Cambridge (search)
rode through them on platform of car; one stone hit me. Find myself enjoying the little danger as of yore. After another car-ride he reported:— The young trolley conductor told me that he had just taken Cheerful Yesterdays from the library and that it was the third book of mine he had read. He spoke especially of the anti-slavery part and has been sorry not to hear me on Irish wrongs at Town Hall. In May, 1886, Emily Dickinson died. Her acquaintance with Colonel Higginson began in 1862, when she wrote to him enclosing some poems and asking his opinion of her verse. While he was in camp in South Carolina she wrote again to ask if he would be her preceptor. Henceforth her letters, in extraordinary script, were signed your scholar. One summer he made his unseen correspondent a long-delayed visit which he has described in the volume called Carlyle's Laugh. He wrote in his diary after her death:— To Amherst to the funeral of that rare and strange creature Emily Dickin
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Bibliography (search)
.) April days. (In Atlantic Monthly, April.) Def. VI. Denmark Vesey. (In Atlantic Monthly, June.) Same. (In his Travellers and Outlaws. 1889.) Ordeal by Battle. (In Atlantic Monthly, July.) Nat Turner's Insurrection. (In Atlantic Monthly, Aug.） Same. (In his Travellers and Outlaws. 1889.) My Outdoor Study. (In Atlantic Monthly, Sept.） Same. (In his Outdoor Papers. 1863.) A New Counterblast. (In Atlantic Monthly, Dec.） Same. (In his Outdoor Papers. 1863.) 1862 (Worcester—enlisted in September） Worcester Public Library, Second Annual Report. Pph. Snow. (In Atlantic Monthly, Feb.) Def. VI. Letter to a Young Contributor. (In Atlantic Monthly, April.) Same. (In his Atlantic Essays. 1871.) Same. (In his Hints on Writing and Speech-Making. 1887.) Health of Our Girls. (In Atlantic Monthly, June.) Gabriel's Defeat. (In Atlantic Monthly, Sept.） Same. (In his Travellers and Outlaws. 1889.) Life of Birds. (In Atlantic Mon