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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1860. (search)
n name was Adelia Strong, daughter of the Hon. Solomon Strong of Leominster, and a lineal descendan Morris Island, July 18. We are in General Strong's brigade. We came up here last night, anived orders to report with his regiment at General Strong's Headquarters, and there he was offered tted it without hesitation. One who was at General Strong's Headquarters at the time writes:— Beaufort, S. C., July 22. General Strong received a letter from Colonel Shaw, in which the desied for the transfer of the Fifty-fourth to General Strong's brigade. So when the troops were brought away from James Island, General Strong took this regiment under his command. It left James Islandin a steamer across the inlet, and reached General Strong's Headquarters about six o'clock, where thpelting rains of the two previous nights. General Strong had been impressed with the high charactering to the front,—he rode by me again with General Strong. He spoke cheerfully, but of course there[1 more...]<
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1865. (search)
capturing himself the first prisoner of the day. He sent back word to his Colonel in less than thirty minutes that his line was formed fifty yards in advance of the old one. On the night of the 17th instant, orders were received to join General Strong's brigade, then at the front of Morris Island. About three o'clock of the afternoon of the 18th, the Fifty-fourth reported for duty to Brigadier-General Strong, and was placed by him at the head of an assaulting column, then forming on the bBrigadier-General Strong, and was placed by him at the head of an assaulting column, then forming on the beach in front of Fort Wagner, which was the objective point. Company H held the left of the second line of the regiment, which position was the most dangerous on account of its proximity to the flanking fire of James Island. At dusk of that night the column was ordered forward, and Russel, with an ardor and devotion which never wavered, threw himself upon his death. When last seen by those who survived, he was lying mortally wounded on the ground, and across him the body of his dear frie