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...Company, and one of the most prominent publishers of Boston, died at his home this morning. Mr. Soule was a student at the Boston Latin School and later entered Harvard, graduating with the class of '62. During the Civil War he was a captain in the Fifty-Fifth Massachusetts Regiment. Mr. Soule was the author of many books mainly on library subjects...
...Wood, who is now chief-of-staff in the United States Army, has been connected with the Army since 1886, when he was made an assistant surgeon. In the year 1898, at the time of the Spanish War, he was given the position of commanding colonel of a volunteer regiment of "Rough Riders"; later he was advanced for exceptional services at San Juan Hill to brigadier general of volunteers...
...early allied himself with the Anti-Slavery cause. In this field his work is scarcely second to that of William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips. When the war came he volunteered his life and sword for the cause he loved, serving with distinction as colonel of a negro regiment. In his political and private life he was an invigorating, beneficent and wholesome force, a fine example of splendid talent, guided by a noble devotion to the right...
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...
...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 us to know...