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Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865 84 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 26 0 Browse Search
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 17 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative 13 1 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 13 1 Browse Search
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain 9 1 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 7 1 Browse Search
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 6 0 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 6 2 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1860. (search)
. C., July 22. General Strong received a letter from Colonel Shaw, in which the desire was expressed for the transfer of first battalion hesitated; but only for an instant, for Colonel Shaw, springing to the front, and waving his sword, shouted,hrough the ditch, and gained the parapet on the right. Colonel Shaw was one of the first to scale the walls. He stood erecn, was shot dead and fell into the fort. I parted with Colonel Shaw as he rode forward to join his regiment. As he was lea:— Among the visitors present was the noble young Colonel Shaw, whose regiment was then stationed on the island. We hly 19, 1863. While being conducted into the fort I saw Colonel Shaw, of the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts (colored) Regiment, aygood, commanding the Rebel forces, said to me: I knew Colonel Shaw before the war, and then esteemed him. Had he been in c. The burial party were then at work, and no doubt Colonel Shaw was buried just beyond the ditch of the fort, in the tr
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1864. (search)
. I can appreciate the idolatry of an old soldier for the old flag beneath which he has fought, and can understand how easy it would be to protect and uphold it with one's life. Nearly two months after this he wrote a letter to his father, stating a desire which he had formed for obtaining an appointment in the Military Academy. This project (which ultimately led to nothing) was, perhaps, the only thing which prevented him from accepting a commission which was tendered to him, under Colonel Shaw, in the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts. He thus describes this offer:— Newbern, North Carolina, February 27, 1862. While upon compliments, I should not fail to speak of that very great one paid us by Governor Andrew. I refer to his sending to Colonel Lee for some of his warrant officers to take commissions in the Fifty-fourth. I am proud to belong to a regiment of such a composition that officers may be drawn at will from its ranks, and with perfect confidence in their abiliti
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, Biographical Index. (search)
H., Hon., I. 418. Seymour, Horatio, Hon., I. 13. Shattuck, G. C., Dr., I. 31. Shattuck, G. O., I. 327, 329;. Shaw, F. G., I. 292; II. 172. Shaw, Lemuel, I. 380. Shaw, R. G., Col., Memoir, II. 172-198. Also, I. 290, 291;, 292, 319Shaw, Lemuel, I. 380. Shaw, R. G., Col., Memoir, II. 172-198. Also, I. 290, 291;, 292, 319, 321, 323, 324. 326, 355, 356II. 83,121,142,145, 251. Shaw, Sarah B., II. 172. Sheafe Family, II. 275. Shelton, E. E., Lieut., II. 137. Sheridan, P. H., Maj.-Gen., I. 296, 297;, 298, 299, 301, 303; II. 69, 129;. Sherman, Dr., I. 187. Shaw, R. G., Col., Memoir, II. 172-198. Also, I. 290, 291;, 292, 319, 321, 323, 324. 326, 355, 356II. 83,121,142,145, 251. Shaw, Sarah B., II. 172. Sheafe Family, II. 275. Shelton, E. E., Lieut., II. 137. Sheridan, P. H., Maj.-Gen., I. 296, 297;, 298, 299, 301, 303; II. 69, 129;. Sherman, Dr., I. 187. Sherman, J., Hon., II. 239. Sherman, W. T., Maj.-Gen., II. 56, 59;, 130, 266, 271, 272, 273, 437, 445, 446. Sherwin, Thomas, II. 207. Shields, James, Maj.-Gen., II. 257. Shurtleff, Benjamin, Dr., II. 42. Shurtleff, N. B., Dr., II. 4Shaw, Sarah B., II. 172. Sheafe Family, II. 275. Shelton, E. E., Lieut., II. 137. Sheridan, P. H., Maj.-Gen., I. 296, 297;, 298, 299, 301, 303; II. 69, 129;. Sherman, Dr., I. 187. Sherman, J., Hon., II. 239. Sherman, W. T., Maj.-Gen., II. 56, 59;, 130, 266, 271, 272, 273, 437, 445, 446. Sherwin, Thomas, II. 207. Shields, James, Maj.-Gen., II. 257. Shurtleff, Benjamin, Dr., II. 42. Shurtleff, N. B., Dr., II. 42. Shurtleff, N. B., Jr., Capt., Memoir, II. 42 -51. Also, I. 24, 25;; II. 50, 51;. Shurtleff, Sarah S., II. 42. Sickles, Daniel E., Maj.-Gen., I. 140, 220;; II. 72, 73;, 235. Sigel, Franz, Maj.-Gen., I. 244; II. 170. Simmons, C. F.,