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Title: War diary and letters of Stephen Minot Weld, 1861-1865
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Weld, Stephen Minot, 1842-
Subjects: United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 56th (1863-1865) United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Campaigns
Publisher: (Cambridge, Mass.) : Privately printed The Riverside press
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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vading spirit of the college regime been revolution-ized. He was full of fun and frolic, and no one enjoyed as hedid a practical joke, when it could do no harm. His laugh wasjoy-giving, and I seem to hear it as I write. Though not irreg-ular in attendance on college exercises, I doubt whether hestudied much till his Senior year. Yet it was perfectly wellunderstood that he all along had possessed the capacity andtaste which he then began to show, and which were sure tomake him an excellent scholar whenever he gave his mind to thework. We all recognized in him not only good-nature and good-fellowship, but a thorough nobleness of spirit and character,inborn and inbred. We should have gone to him to takethe lead on any gay or festive occasion; but we should havegone to him equally for sympathy under adverse circumstan-ces, or for help which could be rendered only with labor andsacrifice. Stephen Minot Weld was born in Boston in 1806. His father,1 Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1890.
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MY FATHER: STEPHEN M. WELD STEPHEN M. WELD 5 William Gordon Weld, was an enterprising and for manyyears a successful ship-master and ship-owner, and distin-guished himself by defeating some Algerine pirates who at-tacked him, and capturing two of their vessels. Subsequently,in our War of 1812, a vessel of his, under his own command,with a valuable cargo and a large amount of specie, was cap-tured by a British frigate off Boston harbor. He had become,by the standard of the times, a rich man, but was so no longer.Several years before this loss, he had removed to Lancaster,and there Stephen was fitted for college, in the school of whichI have already spoken. He must have commenced his prepara-tions under the tuition of George B. Emerson. He entered college at sixteen years of age, without the initialexperience of the outside world which a boy gets by attendingschool away from home. He came with exuberant spirits, witha proclivity for play rather than for work, and with a mirth-provoking

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