878 THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON. 



found in his " Army Life in a Black Regiment." It chanced that he 

 was not engaged in any large battle, but he went on expeditions up the 

 St. Mary's, the St. John's, and the Edisto. While up the St. John's 

 the city of Jacksonville was captured by his command and was held by 

 him until he was ordered back to head-quarters. On the Edisto raid 

 on the 10th of July, 1863, he was wounded. He was shortly thereafter 

 invalided and sent North and, although he thought at one time that 

 he was well enough to resume active service, he found on returning to 

 his regiment that he was not able to bear the exposure of camp life. 

 He resigned in October, 1864. 



His wife had meantime, for the sake of her health, gone to Newport 

 to live. He joined her there and resumed literary work. Suggestions 

 as to his life in that place will be found in " Malbone " and in " Old Port 

 Days." 



In 1878, shortly after the death of his wife, he took a trip to Europe, 

 where he was cordially received as a representative of American liter- 

 ature, and where he met Froude, Carlyle, Sir Frederick Pollock, Mat- 

 thew Arnold, Darwin, and many other distinguished Englishmen. On 

 his return to this country he settled at Cambridge, where in February, 

 1879, he married Mary P. Thacher, herself an authoress of some note. 



The numerous services which he performed for the public in New- 

 buryport and at Worcester indicate his sense of civic responsibility 

 and his willingness to give to the public without reward what there 

 was that was available in his still vigorous body and his richly en- 

 dowed intellect. Though no longer able to endure as much as for- 

 merly, still he performed substantially the same roles at Newport and 

 at Cambridge, renewing his former experiences even to the extent of 

 being dropped from the Newport School Committee, serving as trustee 

 of public libraries, organizing social clubs, and patronizing Shakespeare 

 and Browning Societies. To his connection with the Colonial Club of 

 Cambridge we owe the preservation on canvas of an adequate repre- 

 sentation of his person. The picture of the first president of the club 

 graces the walls of the clubhouse. While in Newport and in Cam- 

 bridge he was for many consecutive years engaged in giving lectures 

 and in editorial works on the " Index " and the " Woman's Journal." 



He was elected to the Legislature in 1880 and again in 1881. He 

 served one year as chief of the personal staff of Governor Long. He 

 was three years on the State Board of Education and served seven 

 years as state military and naval historian. He says, indeed, "Look- 

 ing back fifty years, I cannot put my finger on five years when I myself 

 was not performing some official service for the city or state or both 

 simultaneously." Reentered actively the Cleveland campaign in 1888 



