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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 2: Harper's Ferry and Maryland Heights—Darnstown, Maryland.--Muddy Branch and Seneca Creek on the Potomac—Winter quarters at Frederick, Md. (search)
son within the Department of Pennsylvania was transferred to Banks, who changed the designation of the Department to that of the Shenandoah. It was only one week later that the Army of the Shenandoah--with the exception of my regimentwas ordered to cross the Potomac, and take up positions in Maryland. With an addition to my command of twenty cavalry men, I was left with the Second to occupy and hold Harper's Ferry. The order directing me to hold that outpost was dated the twenty-eigltlh of July, but it was followed by another, dated the twenty-ninth of July, issued from Sandy Hook, in which three companies of the Second Massachusetts Regiment, with a cavalry detachment, were ordered to remain as a garrison within the town; while the remaining companies, with three guns of the Rhode Island Battery, under my command, were ordered to cross the river into Maryland, and take position on the western face of the Maryland Heights. Transferred to the plateau overlooking the Potomac, from
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 3: through Harper's Ferry to Winchester—The Valley of the Shenandoah. (search)
's Ferry, we found the place more wrecked and ruined than when we last saw it in July of 1861. Blackened walls met the eye at every turn; there was no life in the toed for this movement, and it again occupied the ground where it had encamped in July of the preceding year, when under Patterson. In this place, always a hot-bed of Here in Charlestown we stumbled across a good Union citizen, whom we had met in July of 1861. It is amusing now to note how eagerly then we hung on such stuff as thal Williams) had entered. It was true. The Winchester that we had looked at in July of 1861, from this same Bunker Hill, had now been entered from Bunker Hill; the r last chance for a fight was gone. Though the country might not be restored in July, of 1862, there was no doubt the war would be over then, said those whom neithen Florida; I carried him by sea to New Orleans, and thence up the Mississippi in July, where on transports he was borne around and buffeted from place to place,--now
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 6: battle of Winchester (continued)—Federal retreat across the Potomac to Williamsport. (search)
lored woman Peggy, who with her child I passed among the first across the swollen river to a land of freedom. Across the Potomac! Yes, we were again where, in July of the preceding year, we had made our march so gayly into Virginia. One more campaign was ended. There was now left from Banks's command on Virginia soil a feebtwo miles above the railroad bridge at Harper's Ferry, and was driven back by our shells, fired from batteries established where we first pitched our encampment in July of 1861; he ascended Loudon Heights between the Shenandoah and the Potomac, but was driven off by our guns from across the river. Information of the numbers of Stlliamsport to Governor Andrew, of Massachusetts. This final act, connected with the days of the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth of May, requires explanation. In July of 1861 it came to my knowledge that the congressional delegation from Massachusetts had recommended my promotion to a brigadier-generalslip. The President of the
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 7: the Army of Virginia under General Pope—Battle of Cedar Mountain. (search)
mbered only about 8,000; and McDowell's corps was given as 18,400,--a grand total of 38,000, to which add, for cavalry, about 5,000. Pope's Official Report. July came to find us quiet in our camp, with Banks in Washington, from whence, on the 2d, he telegraphed to his assistant adjutant-general to be in readiness to march.eld, forage, or domain. From the hill we could look for thirty miles towards Richmond, the bourn of all our hopes and many of our bodies. The remaining days of July were passed in drills, brigade and regimental; and when the latter, Colonel Andrews (who had received full promotion to the command of the Second Regiment) practimination to do all that mortals could do to retrieve the losses sustained by the Army of the Potomac, be it under Pope or the Devil himself. On the twentyninth of July, we were favored with the actual presence of the commander-in-chief of the Army of Virginia. He had come to take up his abode with us. As recorded at that time by