Dear Preceptor: The Life and Times of Thomas Wentworth HigginsonHoughton Mifflin, 1963 - 363 oldal Thomas 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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... officers greatly exaggerated the difficulty of their discipline . He set eagerly about the task of drilling the regiment and found to his satisfaction that the men enjoyed this exercise as much as he did . It had not always been easy to ...
... officers greatly exaggerated the difficulty of their discipline . He set eagerly about the task of drilling the regiment and found to his satisfaction that the men enjoyed this exercise as much as he did . It had not always been easy to ...
173. oldal
... officers serving under him , the Con- federate Army regarding the Negro troops not merely as a threat but as a bitter insult . Captured Negro soldiers and their white officers were not to be treated as prisoners of war but hanged as ...
... officers serving under him , the Con- federate Army regarding the Negro troops not merely as a threat but as a bitter insult . Captured Negro soldiers and their white officers were not to be treated as prisoners of war but hanged as ...
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... officers ' wives to stay with them at Port Royal would be rescinded , and that the conduct of some of the plantation managers and even the missionaries was to be investigated . Two of Higginson's junior officers were court - martialed ...
... officers ' wives to stay with them at Port Royal would be rescinded , and that the conduct of some of the plantation managers and even the missionaries was to be investigated . Two of Higginson's junior officers were court - martialed ...
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