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Tables of Contents for The Complete Civil War Journal and Selected Letters of Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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Acknowledgments
xix
Introduction
1
32
Note on the Texts
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4
WAR JOURNAL NOVEMBER 22, 1862 -- APRIL 25, 1864
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184
WAR LETTERS AUGUST 4, 1861 -- MAY 18, 1864
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148
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, August 4, 1861
``a bouquet on every bayonet''
223
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, November 1, 1861
``people must act up to their consciences''
224
3
To James Freeman Clarke November 5, 1861
``My proposed regiment seems to be under very fair headway''
227
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, November 24, 1861
``I confidently expect to go in some way''
227
2
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, August 15, 1862
``the uncertainties of human life...seem hardly greater in war than in peace''
229
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, August 22, 1862
``I have now 27 recruits''
230
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, August 29, 1862
``I have...had a street drill of my company''
231
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, September 7, 1862
``I don't think I ever did anything better than I have done all this''
232
2
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, September 14, 1862
``Tomorrow I go into barracks''
234
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, September 26, 1862
``nine hundred men snore in concert in one vast hall''
235
2
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, October 4, 1862
``Old Higgie is so strict, so strict''
237
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, October 13, 1862
``a divertisement of men alone''
238
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, October 26, 1862
``I have to give all the nervous energy I can spare''
239
2
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, November 2, 1862
``our rather monotonous life''
241
2
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, November 3, 1862
``We have orders to leave''
243
1
To Thomas Wentworth Higginson, from Gen. Rufus Saxton, November 5, 1862
``I take great pleasure in offering you the position of Colonel''
243
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, November 9, 1862
``ours will be a splendid regiment''
243
1
To Thomas Wentworth Higginson, From Rev. James H. Fowler, November 10, 1862
``the demands of the movement''
244
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, November 12, 1862
``We have marching orders''
245
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, November 16, 1862
``this letter...may change all my plans''
246
1
To Brigadier General Rufus Saxton from Colonel Augustus B. Sprague, November 19, 1862
``a man of marked ability and of indomitable perseverance''
246
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, November 28, 1862
``if I don't come home jet black you must be very grateful''
247
2
To James T. Fields, (No Date)
``I enjoy it all exceedingly, I assure you''
249
1
To Mary Channing Higginson, December 10, 1862
``the vexed ghosts of departed slave-lords of the soil''
250
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, December 10, 1862
``I seem like Rajah Brooke in Borneo''
251
2
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, December 22, 1862
``these will yet have to fight to get the promise fulfilled''
253
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, December 26, 1862
``How happy I was''
254
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, January 2, 1863
``The Freedom Jubilee''
255
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, January 6, 1863
``nothing in the landscape to show aught but beautiful peace''
256
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, January 7, 1863
``lovely weather, rosebuds, moonlight and soft airs''
257
1
To Mary Channing Higginson, January 9, 1863
``You don't know how pastoral I feel''
258
2
To Mary Channing Higginson, January 14, 1863
``I feel like Hosea Biglow's militia officer''
260
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, February 1, 1863
``one of the most daring expeditions of the war''
261
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, February 16, 1863
``the regiment goes on improving''
262
1
To Ralph Waldo Emerson, February 20, 1863
``the personal experience of these men has been a liberal education''
262
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, February 24, 1863
``a very good test of the men''
263
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, March 3, 1863
``I liked the absence of cant''
264
1
To---, March 6, 1863
``we sail for Fernandina''
265
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, March 12, 1863
``A little skirmishing at present, but no great danger''
265
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, March 19, 1863
``we have had rather an anxious time''
266
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, March 22, 1863
``The colors are better apart, for military service''
266
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, March 27, 1863
``Probably my regiment will go farther up the river''
267
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, (No Date)
``shells are not so very dangerous''
268
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, March 30, 1863
``We are ordered to evacuate Jacksonville''
268
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, April 8, 1863
``we have happened into the most fascinating regions and life''
269
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, April 10, 1863
``This charming life among Cherokee roses & peach blossoms''
270
1
To Mary Channing Higginson, April 16, 1863
``These are queer creatures, these freedmen''
270
2
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, April 22, 1863
``heap o'howdy''
272
1
To Mary Channing Higginson, April 23, 1863
``people won't write all on one side''
272
1
To James T. Fields, May 6, 1863
``I want the Atlantic''
273
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, May 6, 1863
``Intensely human''
274
1
To Mary Channing Higginson, May 9, 1863
``sympathy, success, approbation''
275
3
To Mary Channing Higginson, May 16, 1863
``thus do great events link on to small ones''
278
2
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, May 18, 1863
``All quiet along the Coosaw''
280
2
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, May 26, 1863
``still here and likely to stay''
282
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, June 5, 1863
``I wash my hands in de mornin'glory''
282
1
To Mary Channing Higginson, June 10, 1863
``Cabals and intrigues''
283
3
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, June 10, 1863
``show soldiers & real soldiers''
286
2
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, June 19, 1863
``I will have none but civilized warfare in my reg't''
288
1
To Mary Channing Higginson, June 19, 1863
``burning & pillaging I utterly detest''
288
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, June 22, 1863
``no one dares to treat us otherwise than well''
289
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, June 26, 1863
``Any artist would prefer to have his soldiers black''
290
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, July 2, 1863
``It was very boarding schooly, the box''
291
2
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, July 8, 1863
``We are peacefully here & likely to remain''
293
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, July 12, 1863
``I had a knock on the side''
294
1
To Mary Channing Higginson, July 12, 1863
``It only felt like a smart slap''
294
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, July 14, 1863
``why it is Arcadia, Syrian peace''
295
1
To Mary Channing Higginson, July 14, 1863
``a black & blue spot, as big as my two hands''
296
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, July 27, 1863
``a twenty days furlough''
297
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, July 31, 1863
``I am well enough''
298
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, August 7, 1863
``myself `me one' as my men say''
298
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, August 12, 1863
``my piece in the next Atlantic''
299
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, August 16, 1863
``I feel very well & quite fit to go''
300
1
To Mary Channing Higginson, August 19, 1863
``I want to see my black babies''
301
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, August 23, 1863
``The Mark Tapley element in me''
302
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, August 28, 1863
``our camp is at a very beautiful place''
303
2
To Mary Channing Higginson, August 30, 1863
``My trip home was a dear little oasis''
305
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, September 8, 1863
``it looked pleasant morally if uncomfortable bodily''
306
1
To Mary Channing Higginson, September 8, 1863
``rheumatiz is a citizen of the world''
307
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, September 15, 1863
``They do drill so pretty''
308
2
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, September 24, 1863
``Scroby' the indomitable''
310
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, October 1, 1863
``I am in rather a state of collapse''
310
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, October 2, 1863
``Doing well only `powerful weak''
311
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, October 9, 1863
``a sort of good natured Hurly Burly Hall''
311
2
To Mary Channing Higginson, October 10, 1863
``every patient...wants to be pulsed & thumped & auscultated a little''
313
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, October 17, 1863
``I lead a rather agreeable single-gentleman life''
314
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, October 19, 1863
``I continue to gain strength, though slowly''
315
1
To Mary Channing Higginson, October 24, 1863
``thrust through & through by malaria without knowing anything about it''
316
2
To Mary Channing Higginson, October 25, 1863
``the pet and belle of the island''
318
2
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, October 26, 1863
``staying about as ladies do''
320
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, November 2, 1863
``We are going out on picquet''
321
1
To Mary Channing Higginson, November 6, 1863
``The men are singing tremendously tonight''
322
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, November 10, 1863
``a d---d saucy Yankee as they ever met''
323
1
To Mary Channing Higginson, November 18, 1863
``building castles in the air for the future''
324
2
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, November 19, 1863
``5 Colonels, 3 very fat, standing in a row''
326
1
To Mary Channing Higginson, November 19, 1863
``comfortable in my tent''
327
2
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, November 26, 1863
``the negroes are the true owners of the soil''
329
1
To Mary Channing Higginson, November 26, 1863
``Coming soon enough for you''
330
2
To Mary Channing Higginson, November 27, 1863
``Every colonel has to struggle...to keep his chickens together''
332
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, December 5, 1863
``doing tolerably well''
333
1
To Mary Channing Higginson, December 5, 1863
``Lieutenant White in place of a Lt. Brown''
333
2
To Mary Channing Higginson, December 12, 1863
``not sick & not quite well''
335
2
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, December 13, 1863
``a rather formidable gathering of Ethiopia''
337
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, December 19, 1863
``What do we have to eat?''
338
2
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, December 21, 1863
``to be the officers of law in the scene of their old bondage''
340
2
To Mary Channing Higginson, December 21, 1863
``every Colonel is court martialed first or last''
342
2
To Mary Channing Higginson, January 8, 1864
``as if made of better clay''
344
2
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, January 10, 1864
``the results now gained for the colored people & the nation''
346
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, January 14, 1864
``my blameless Ethiopians''
347
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, January 22, 1864
``Baby flourishes & so do we all''
348
2
To Mary Channing Higginson, January 28, 1864
``I have done my duty entirely''
350
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, February 7, 1864
``a great flurry & hurry & for nothing at all''
351
2
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, February 9, 1864
``I certainly do not intend to be an invalid for life''
353
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, February 12, 1864
``waiting day by day''
354
2
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, February 23, 1864
``Peace evidently has its defeats no less than war''
356
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, March 2, 1864
``we think of...demanding 35 days furlough to Africa''
357
2
To Sarah---, March 4, 1864
``the fascination of perfectly naive broken-English''
359
2
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, March 6, 1864
``trying to throw the blame of his own folly on the colored troops''
361
1
To Mary Channing Higginson, March 11, 1864
``my theory of the greater dangers of peace & Main St.''
362
1
To---, March 20, 1864
``not a soul but was entirely deceived''
363
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, April 2, 1864
``I expect to wilt''
363
2
To Mary Channing Higginson, April 4, 1864
``The literary trade is probably good like all others now''
365
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, April 20, 1864
``We are leading our usual picnic life''
366
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, April 27, 1864
``I have sent in my surgeon's certificate''
367
1
To Louisa Storrow Higginson, May 18, 1864
``the event of coming home fr. the wars''
368
1
Chronology
369
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Index
379