Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Two fragments from Thomas Wentworth Higginson’s Cheerful Yesterdays (Boston, 1898) [William B. Greene at Harvard Divinity School – pages 106-107] Two of the most interesting men in the Divinity School were afterward, like myself, in military service during the Civil War. One of them was James Richardson, whom Frothingham described later as “a brilliant wreath of fire-mist, which seemed every moment to be on the point of becoming a star, but never did.” He enlisted as a private soldier and died in hospital, where he had been detailed as nurse. The other had been educated at West Point, and had […]