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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1842. (search)
ges hands, and the most corrupt and degraded administration topples over, not, I hope, to be revived in my day. . . . . November 10.—The last three days, talking over returns. Today we have accounts of terrible import from Charleston and Savannah. They will have to submit to the will of the majority in the Union, or go to everlasting smash out of it. My own idea is, that, however the South may fume, fret, and bluster, just now, they will be very calm before next March. . . . . November 13.—Papers still full of Southern secession nonsense. . . . . December 5.—I cannot feel that this great confederacy is to be destroyed just yet, and I don't like to contemplate the fearful ruin that must overtake the South if they pursue their mad scheme. . . . . December 10.—Put on my skates this afternoon. Am aching all over. Two hundred and fifteen pounds is a heavy weight to be supported on two one-eighth-inch irons, but I love to mingle in these gay crowds. . . . . Dec
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1852. (search)
marching incessantly since November 1st; had snow-storms; slept tentless about the whole time; had salt pork, raw; hard bread, and coffee sugarless, where we could get it, and thankful for it. O, it's jolly campaigning in the winter; turning into a potato-field, in a driving snow-storm, to sleep. . . . . I think that we shall see a fight soon. The Rebels are close to us; and, while I write, the cannonading is incessant. I shall try to do my duty like a man, when the time comes. On November 13th he was again (and the third time) put in command of the regiment, much against his will; the Lieutenant-Colonel, together with the Adjutant, having been taken prisoner while eating dinner across the river at White Sulphur Springs. After leaving camp on August 22d, he was in command about half the time; and he remained in command till he fell. November 15th, Saturday, he was, for the first time, under fire; and says, November 16th:— I don't think I either showed or felt the lea