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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, chapter 36 (search)
Livermore, Maine, June 30, 1821. He was the son of Ebenezer and Louisa (Pierce) Hinds, and the fifth in descent from Ebenezer Hinds, who was, in 1776, a Presbyterian preacher in Middleboroa, Mass. He was also the fifth of the family who, from fatheat number of young men for Bowdoin College, where it was said that no candidates for admission came so well prepared as Mr. Hinds's scholars. He was an enthusiastic teacher, sparing no pains or expense to perfect his methods of instruction,—hiring d that it was not as a private soldier that he could best serve his country. The regiment was soon after brigaded, and Mr. Hinds was provided with employment better suited to his capacity,—being detailed as clerk to the brigade commissary. His dutough the Peninsular Campaign and took part in most of its battles, greatly distinguishing itself on several occasions. Mr. Hinds was the occasional chronicler of its fame in the columns of the Aroostook Pioneer, whose editor was his neighbor and fr