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Bring.-Gen. John H. Shelton and members of 51st Infantry Brigade head quarters...
...from Hamilton College. He was admitted to the bar in 1880 and set up practice in Utica. In 1884-5 he was mayor of Utica and two years later was sent to Congresses where he served a total of twenty-four years, being a member of the 50th and 51st Congresses and then again, after a space of two years, a member of eight succeeding Congresses. On November 3, 1908, he was elected Vice-President of the United States, and was nominated for the same office by the Republican party last June...
Thomas Wentworth Higginson was born in Cambridge in 1823. He graduated from College in 1841 and six years later from the Divinity School. At the outbreak of the Civil War he received a commission as captain in the 51st Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Militia; after three years of service he left the army with the rank of colonel. Colonel Higginson was always prominent in the field of literature, being the last survivor of the early American school of litterateurs of whom Wendell Phillips '31 and Theodore Parker '36 were such notable examples...
...lover of all that was adventurous and free; the knight-errant champion of Abolition; a man who could lead a mob and who could plot gloriously for jail-deliveries as well as for deliveries from prisons of the mind. As Unitarian minister, as mob leader, as captain of the 51st Massachusetts Volunteers, and as colonel of the first colored regiment of actual slaves enlisted as Union soldiers; as reformer, and as author--essayist, romancer, and poet--Colonel Higginson was a man to know; and the sketch of his career and the tribute by Edward H. Hall '51 will help...
...School, from which he graduated in 1847. He then became a minister of the Theodore Parker school, but in 1858 abandoned the pulpit, having entered actively into literature and also into political affairs, especially in the anti-slavery conflict over Kansas. In 1862 he became a captain in the 51st Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, and afterwards Colonel of the 1st Regiment of South Carolina, composed of freed slaves. He was severely wounded in August, 1863, and left the service in the following year. From the close of the War to 1878 he resided at Newport...