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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2 1,747 1,747 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 574 574 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 435 435 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 98 98 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 90 90 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 86 86 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 58 58 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. 54 54 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 53 53 Browse Search
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War 49 49 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 14 (search)
eral of volunteers. He was mustered out of the volunteer service January 15, 1866, but rose finally to be colonel and assistant quartermaster-general in the regular army, March 10, 1882. He retired from active service October 19, 1888, having been made on that date a brigadier-general on the retired list. This is the brief summary of what was, in reality, a quite unique career. The portion of this honorable life upon which his personal fame will doubtless be founded is that from 1862 to 1865, when he was military governor of the Department of the South. In this capacity he first proved possible the distribution of the vast body of free or fugitive slaves over the Sea Islands, which had been almost deserted by their white predecessors. This feat was accompanied by what was probably in the end even more important,--the creation of black troops from that centre. The leadership in this work might have belonged under other circumstances to Major-General Hunter, of Washington, Distr
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 16 (search)
quotations, gradually enlarging the book from the beginning. In 1859 he sold out to Sever & Francis. In 1862 he served as volunteer naval paymaster for nine months with Captain Boutelle, his brother-in-law, on board Admiral DuPont's dispatch-boat. In August, 1863, he entered the publishing house of Little, Brown & Co., nominally as clerk, but with the promise that in eighteen months, when the existing partnership would end, he should be taken into the firm, which accordingly took place in 1865. The fourth edition of his Familiar quotations, always growing larger, had meanwhile been published by them, as well as an edition de luxe of Walton's Complete Angler, in the preparation of which he made an especial and exceptionally fine collection of works on angling, which he afterwards presented to the Harvard College Library. His activity in the Waltonian sport is also commemorated in Lowell's poem, To Mr. John Bartlett, who had sent me a seven-pound trout. He gave to the Library at t
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 18 (search)
time to time, making the most elaborate single battery which the war-party had to encounter. From an early period of life he was a profuse and vigorous pamphleteer, his first pamphlet being published during the Civil War and entitled Cheap Cotton by free labor, and this publication led to his acquaintance with David R. Wells and Charles Nordhoff, thenceforth his life-long friends. His early pamphlets were on the cotton question in different forms (1863-76); he wrote on blockade-running (1865) ; on the Pacific Railway (1871) ; and on mutual fire insurance (1885), this last being based on personal experience as the head of a mutual company. He was also, during his whole life, in print and otherwise, a strong and effective fighter for sound currency. A large part of his attention from 1889 onward was occupied by experiments in cooking and diet, culminating in an invention of his own called The Aladdin Oven. This led him into investigations as to the cost of nutrition in differe
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 21 (search)
lume. Her poem The last Bird also appeared in one of these volumes, after which there was an interval of two and a half years during which her contributions were suspended. Several more of her poems came out in volume VIII (1861), and the Battle hymn of the Republic in the number for February, 1862 (ix, 145). During the next two years there appeared six numbers of a striking series called Lyrics of the Street. Most of these poems, with others, were included in a volume called Later Lyrics (1865). She had previously, however, in 1853, published her first volume of poems, entitled Passion flowers ; and these volumes were at a later period condensed into one by her daughters, with some omissions,--not always quite felicitous, as I think,--this definitive volume bearing the name From sunset ridge (1898). Mrs. Howe, like her friend Dr. Holmes, has perhaps had the disappointing experience of concentrating her sure prospects of fame on a single poem. What the Chambered Nautilus represe
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 22 (search)
time he has continued to reside in Cambridge, and has devoted himself to editorial and literary work. His literary labors from 1869 to the present day have been vast and varied. He has been one of the editors of the Popular science news (formerly the Boston Journal of Chemistry ), and for nearly twenty years has had charge of the department of Shakespeareana in the Literary world and the Critic, to which he has also added Poet-lore. He has written casual articles for other periodicals. In 1865 he published a handbook of Latin poetry with J. H. Hanson, A. M., of Waterville, Maine. In 1867 he followed this by an American edition of Craik's English of Shakespeare. Between 1867 and I 869, in connection with J. A. Gillet, he brought out the Cambridge course in physics, in six volumes. In 1870 he edited Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice with such success that by 1883 he had completed an edition of all the plays in forty volumes. It has long been accepted as a standard critical authori