Dear Preceptor: The Life and Times of Thomas Wentworth HigginsonThomas Wentworth Higginson was a military commander during the America Civil War, an Abolitionist, a Unitarian minister, a writer and editor and the man who brought the poetry of Emily Dickinson before the American public. During his long life he knew many of the great people of his day including Emerson, Thoreau, Julia Ward Howe, and Wendell Phillips. |
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Theoretically he knew a good deal about military tactics ; he had been reading almost nothing else for a year , and he privately thought that most regular army officers greatly exaggerated the difficulty of their discipline .
Theoretically he knew a good deal about military tactics ; he had been reading almost nothing else for a year , and he privately thought that most regular army officers greatly exaggerated the difficulty of their discipline .
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The ordinary courtesies of war were at first denied Colonel Higginson and the white officers serving under him , the Confederate Army regarding the Negro troops not merely as a threat but as a bitter insult . Captured Negro soldiers and ...
The ordinary courtesies of war were at first denied Colonel Higginson and the white officers serving under him , the Confederate Army regarding the Negro troops not merely as a threat but as a bitter insult . Captured Negro soldiers and ...
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In this idyllic existence the officers must have been tempted sometimes to forget that the country was at war . ... It was said that permission for officers ' wives to stay with them at Port Royal would be rescinded , and that the ...
In this idyllic existence the officers must have been tempted sometimes to forget that the country was at war . ... It was said that permission for officers ' wives to stay with them at Port Royal would be rescinded , and that the ...
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| Cím | Dear Preceptor: The Life and Times of Thomas Wentworth Higginson |
| Szerző | Anna Mary Wells |
| Kiadó | Houghton Mifflin, 1963 |
| Eredeti forrása | a Kaliforniai Egyetem |
| Digitalizálva: | 2008. ápr. 29. |
| Terjedelem | 363 oldal |
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