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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1833 (search)
1862, Colonel Webster obtained leave of absence for a few days, and came home. This was in consequence of the death of his youngest daughter, Julia, to whom he was tenderly attached, and whose death overwhelmed him with grief, and awakened 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 Colonel Webster that his regiment should have been led into their first battle by any one but himself; but, on the other hand, he had a right to be proud of their excellent conduct and steadiness under a hot fire of two or three hours. Colonel Webster, on the 16th
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1854. (search)
orld laid its hand, Found straightway to its mind, could value in a trice: Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All I could never be, All men ignored in me, This I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. James Savage. Captain 2d Mass. Vols. (Infantry), May 24, 1861; Major, June 23, 1862; Lieutenant-Colonel, 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. James Savage of Boston, well known for his historical researches connected with the early settlers of New England, and of Elizabeth Otis (Stillman) Savage. Major Thomas Savage, the founder of the family in America, came to this country in 1635, settled in Boston, and rendered valuable service to the Colony as commander of the Massachusetts forces in King Philip's war. His son inherited the martial instincts o
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1859. (search)
the cars disagreed with me. Weather hot and dry. The guard shot a man to-day for crossing the dead-line. August 5.—A shower, and very hot. August 6.—Not well to-day; took a good bath in the creek; got some coarse bread and little meat; no appetite; very warm night. August7.—Had a good night's sleep, notwithstanding the weather; took a bath and washed my shirt and drawers, the only ones I have. Pants well worn. Sent a letter home. Another man shot near the dead-line. August 9.—About noon rained very hard, washed down part of the stockade, and wet us all. No rations. August 10.—Drew half rations bread and boiled beans. Could not eat the beans. Rained hard; in the afternoon drew some boiled beef with no bread. August 11 .—Drew beans, bread, and beef. August 13.—A very hot day. A great many have died within a few days. Fresh beef, beans, and corn-bread. August 15. —The fever is abating which has for a few days prevailed in the camp
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1860. (search)
peculiar episode of the war. It brought officers and men very closely together. Fatigue and anxiety pressed heavily upon both body and mind, and the strain was such that those who bore it well, and as Lieutenant Abbott bore it, were recognized as of the truest temper. A few days after his return he received the news of the death of his brother Edward, senior captain of the Second Massachusetts Infantry, who was killed at the sanguinary and disastrous battle of Cedar Mountain on the 9th of August. The brothers had grown up together; they had gone to school together; and at college they had been classmates and roommates. The difference in their ages was less than sixteen months. The tie that united them had been very close, and the survivor mourned bitterly for the gallant brother whom he had lost. Lieutenant Abbott marched with the army from Harrison's Landing down the Peninsula to Yorktown and Newport News. At the latter place his brigade was embarked and carried to Alexan