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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 10: General Banks's orders and responsibility. (search)
t an engagement was going on, or might be brought on. What excuse, then, is left for Banks? We have seen what he has to offer, which is all there is to offer; and it only adds to our heavy grief (without justifying him), that either to add the warrior's to the politician's fame, or to retrieve at Cedar Mountain what, in his ignorance, Banks fancied he had lost at Winchester, such sacrifices should have been made. A writer, once on Banks's staff, Strother: in Harper's Monthly for August, 1867. echoes him in these words: There was another motive underlying and probably controlling Banks's judgment: neither he nor the troops under his command were at all satisfied with the verdict of an exacting and ungenerous public upon the actions in the valley of the Shenandoah; they felt the injustice of that judgment, which, without regard to circumstances or contingencies, accepted success as the only test of merit, and were burning for an opportunity to wipe away unmerited opprobrium. T