tellectually

Updated: May 20, 2025

He had no advantages of birth; though he came of a sturdy old English stock that emigrated from Norfolk to Massachusetts in the seventeenth century, and though his mother seems to have been, both in tellectually and otherwise, above the general run of the Kentuckians among whom he was born in 1809. His educational advantages were still less.

William Charles Henry Wood - Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray