Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . next went to the Scientific School of Miningand Engineering at Freiburg. Saxony. When in1860-1861 the civil war cloud darkened our fairnational sky, he wrote, I must hasten my the war comes, I shall sail at once. In Decem-ber, 1861, he was given a commission in the army,which he used as soon as he waited to see hisfather pass from earth. He was mustered in as sec-ond lieutenant in the First Massachusetts Cavalry,the hist
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . next went to the Scientific School of Miningand Engineering at Freiburg. Saxony. When in1860-1861 the civil war cloud darkened our fairnational sky, he wrote, I must hasten my the war comes, I shall sail at once. In Decem-ber, 1861, he was given a commission in the army,which he used as soon as he waited to see hisfather pass from earth. He was mustered in as sec-ond lieutenant in the First Massachusetts Cavalry,the history of which is well knowil in the war de-partment. He became captain, lieutenant-colonel,and in February, 1865, commissioned as colonel,which he held at the time of his death. He wasmortally wounded in the brilliant engagement atHigh Bridge, Virginia, April 6, 1865. His braver/was noted by the then Lieutenant-General Grant,at whose request he was commissioned brigadier-general. Here men fought hand to hand, an un-common occurence. He fell from saber stroke andpistol shot. He was brought home to the houseof his brother, Hon. John D. Washburn, where he. (^L0aiWmA4\ WORCESTER COUNTY 13 shortly gave up his young life, licing ])ut twenty-six years of age. He was called the While Knightof Modern Cavalry. (IX) Hon. John D. Washburn, born in Boston,March 27, 1833. was the eldest son of John Mar-shall and Harriet (Kimball) Washburn. His par-ents removed to Lancaster when he was five yearsold and there his youth was spent amid those beauti-ful surroundings. In 1853 he was graduated fromHarvard College, entering the law, lirst studyingwith Hon. Emory Washburn and Hon. George in 1854, finally receiving a diploma from theHarvard School in 1856. He practised in Worcesterwith Hon. H, C. Rice. He made for himself a placeof importance among insurance circles, as legaladviser. Later he succeeded Hon. Alexander as general agent and attorney of the in-surance companies in 1866. T
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