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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)
e and our left wing. Since morning, the enemy had been drawing nearer and nearer, feeling Baker's position and ascertaining his numbers. The skirmish with Devens, and a few shells fired from the Heights on the Maryland shore, which reached his columns, did not retard his advance. It was now between half-past 1 and two P. M. This was the hour when the enemy came in on the front and right,the Eighth Virginia Regiment immediately in the front; a battalion of the Thirteenth Mississippi, and Cudworth's Cavalry dismounted on the right. The cavalry numbered about three hundred. The Eighth Virginia came to the edge of the woods bordering the open space within which was formed the centre of Baker's line of battle, and, halting, formed in line, about two hundred and fifty feet from the line. The Virginians certainly, as well as the men of the Fifteenth Massachusetts Regiment, and perhaps others, were armed with smooth-bore muskets. And so the battle commenced. It will be perceived tha