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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1857. (search)
persistent fidelity; though the one shrank from publicity, and the other was undecorated with the badges of rank. George Whittemore, Jr., son of George and Anna Whittemore, was born in Boston, December 19, 1837. He attended the public schools of that city, graduating from the Latin School, a medal scholar, in 1853. He immediatdown fast. [The telescopic rifles weighed from fifteen to fifty pounds.] Whilst asleep in a barn, on one occasion, with men of his own and other companies, Whittemore's rifle was stolen from him. This happened a few days before the battle of Antietam; and at the commencement of that engagement he was unarmed, and at liberty t next day, when the ground came into possession of the Federal army, his body was carefully and tenderly buried by his comrades, with a headboard inscribed, Sergeant Whittemore. It was soon after removed to Mount Auburn. There it rests in a spot that was a favorite resort of his while in college. It is situated on the slope of H