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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 14 12 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 4 4 Browse Search
Owen Wister, Ulysses S. Grant 2 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739. 1 1 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1862. (search)
mac from Edward's Ferry to Seneca Mills. Lieutenant Ropes soon gave evidence of a fitness for milit down the Valley of the Shenandoah. Here Lieutenant Ropes received his initiation into active militbandoned fortifications of the enemy; and Lieutenant Ropes, temporarily in command of Company K, hadgaged with the enemy there. Of Fair Oaks Lieutenant Ropes writes— Our regiment was opposed td men were killed or wounded. Half the men in Ropes's company were hit, and two of his sergeants wted men in killed, wounded, and missing. Lieutenant Ropes was struck twice, once by a spent ball, aer officer, suddenly cried out to me that Lieutenant Ropes was killed. I ran over to him, and grasp raging, officers and men alike wept over Lieutenant Ropes. His remains were sent to Boston, andly cherished, and we will always point to Lieutenant Ropes as an heroic man, worthy of a life-long e One more testimony may be added. Lieutenant Ropes was physically so strong that no exposure[3 more...]