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Title Colonel. War & Affiliation Civil War / Union. Date of Birth - Death December 22, 1823 – May 9, 1911. Thomas Wentworth Higginson entered his military career fairly late in life. By the time the Civil War began, however, Higginson had been advocating for disunion for a number of years.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson was a 19th-century American activist, poet, author, politician, abolitionist, and soldier. He fought in the American Civil War, championed fugitive slaves, and played a vital role in the development and publication of Emily Dickinson’s poetry.
May 9, 1911. Place of Burial: Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cemetery Name: Cambridge Cemetery. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1823, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, became best known as a radical abolitionist and advocate for women's suffrage, as well as a Unitarian minister, poet, author, and Civil War officer.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson died on May 9, 1911 at the age of 87. Called a man whose whole life was a “sermon on freedom," Higginson had a fascinating career as minister, editor, writer and abolitionist. He was born on December 23, 1823 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His father died when he was 11.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson (b. 1823–d. 1911) was a native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a graduate of Harvard College (1841) and Harvard Divinity School (1847). A prolific author and popular lecturer, Higginson was also a Unitarian minister, an abolitionist activist, a soldier, an editor, a women’s rights leader, and a literary critic.
Higginson was a prolific writer, publishing more than 500 essays in major journals, some of which have been collected in the thirty-five books he wrote or edited. His leadership role in the Abolitionist movement, his command of the first Black regiment in U.S. military history, his editorship of several journals, and his many writings on issues ...
Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911) was a prolific author and editor who was active in Abolitionist circles before the Civil War. During the war he commanded an all-black regiment and wrote about his experiences after the war.
