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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 4: the Valley of the Shenandoah (continued)—Return to Strasburg. (search)
that he was engaged to be married to a young lady of Winchester, and wished a leave of absence for six days that he might go back then and be married. He had met his love for the first time at a house in that town, where I had sent him in command of a guard. He went, he saw, and was conquered: he a Yankee, she a Virginian; he Union, she a Rebel. I gave this officer a leave of absence, and he was married. It was said at this time in the regiment that I had prophesied for the coming nineteenth of July that I would march the Second Regiment up State Street in Boston; and in a letter stating the prophecy I added, Verily, it looks so. Whether on the main, the middle, or the back road of that lovely Shenandoah Valley, rich with green fields stretching off for miles and miles, wherever our foragers wandered, we were the first to cull dainties from rich farms, then looking very unlike the starvation and misery which afterwards befell the people. While we were at Harrisonburg, purchase
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 7: the Army of Virginia under General Pope—Battle of Cedar Mountain. (search)
antry, artillery, and train-wagons, and had at that date succeeded in getting no farther than Madison Court House. The arrival of the enemy at Gordonsville, on the sixteenth of July, rendered the contemplated movement impossible. On the nineteenth of July we had moved our camp to Little Washington, a small town east of the Blue Ridge, on a line from Luray to Warrenton. The following are the points our army occupied on this line, which was in length thirty and one-third miles: The two divisi'clock at night when our division arrived at Culpeper, having made eight miles in eight hours. Why General Pope was hurrying his forces into and around Culpeper Court House will appear from a review of the movements of the enemy. On the nineteenth of July, Jackson, with two divisions of troops, commanded by Winder and Ewell, arrived near Gordonsville. General Lee thought that important railroad place was in danger; and from what we have seen of the instructions given by Pope to Banks at War