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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1842. (search)
f society, of culture, and of taste. But he studied no profession, developed no marked ambition. He was satisfied, perhaps too easily, with the competence and the pleasant surroundings to which he was born; and, retiring after graduation to his native city, he passed twenty years so quietly that his name was hardly mentioned beyond it, save among a small inner circle of his early companions, until the war called him forth for duty and for death. William Logan Rodman was the only son of Benjamin and Susan (Morgan) Rodman, and was born March 7, 1822. He was descended, on the mother's side, from a prominent family in Philadelphia, and on the father's side from a line of worthy ancestors, all members of the Society of Friends, and numbering in their ranks the most influential merchants and ship-owners of Nantucket and New Bedford. Joseph Rotch, his great-great-grandfather, William Rotch, his great-grandfather, Samuel Rodman, his grandfather, were all men of uncommon character and a
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1852. (search)
ptures. We now pass to a period in the prison life at Richmond which was full of gloomy anxieties. On the 10th of November, General I. H. Winder published an order of the insurgent Secretary of War, directing him to select hostages, to be confined in the cells allotted to persons charged with infamous crimes, to answer with their lives for the safety of the Rebel privateersmen, held by the United States government, under a charge of piracy on the high seas. In closing his order Secretary Benjamin said:— As these measures are intended to repress the infamous attempt now made by the enemy to commit judicial murder on prisoners of war, you will execute them strictly, as the mode best calculated to prevent the commission of so heinous a crime. Major Revere was one of the hostages selected under this order, and he entered upon the ordeal with the equanimity of a brave soldier, who stood for his country, with its honor in his keeping. On the following Thursday, the hostage
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, Biographical Index. (search)
. 27. Robbins, E. H., Judge, I. 204. Robeson, A., II. 250. Robeson, Sibyl, II. 250. Robeson, T. R, II. 250. Robeson, T. R., Jr., Capt., Memoir, II. 250-262. Also, II. 106, 107;, 108, 109. Roche, M. B., Dr., II. 215. Rodman, Benjamin, 1. 59. Rodman, Samuel, I. 60. Rodman, Susan, I. 59. Rodman, T. R., Capt., I. . 68, 69. Rodman, W. L., Lieut.-Col., Memoir, 59-71. Rogers, W. B., Prof., I. 324. Rogers, W. M., Sergt.-Maj., Memoir, II. 158 -162. Rohiscault, I301, 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, Fran