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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1841. (search)
repent of his choice, and that he thought he could make a soldier of me then, and is sure of it now. So I am entirely satisfied. And if I should come to grief, be assured it will be with a light conscience; for I have no one dependent upon me, and have not been troubled with any conflict of duties. In the same letter he thus speaks of the soldiers:-- Our regiment, the Fourteenth Massachusetts, or Essex, has as good material as ever marched out of the old Commonwealth. All from Essex County. Stalwart, sober men, all of them. Whether we succeed in drilling them to form squares, direct and oblique, or not, during the short ten days we have left, I will warrant every company of them to make face against cavalry, even in line, before turning their backs and taking to the woods. If they allow themselves to be cut up, without killing man for man, call me no prophet. The change in his mode of life seemed to transform his whole nature. This shy, contemplative, lonely, middle