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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)
r,--a half-dozen discharges, and a sergeant of the party came in wounded. A half an hour later a regular volley was heard in front, succeeded by an irregular fire, the whole being over in a few minutes, after which wounded men from Devens's command made their appearance on the cart-path, emerging from the woods in front. The attack upon Colonel Lee's scouting party and upon Colonel Devens's battalion was by a single company of the Seventeenth Regiment Mississippi Infantry, commanded by a Captain Duff. On the Saturday previous, this company, which had been on picket duty on the Virginia shore, had been sent to Harper's Ferry, and now, returning to resume its duty and reinstate the pickets, stumbled first upon the unexpected scouts of Lee, whom while carefully reconnoitring, they plumped squarely upon Devens with his command in line, and fired, receiving the return volley described. Nothing more happened until about nine o'clock, when Colonel Devens's battalion appeared, marching b
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Index (search)
eulogist of Stonewall Jackson,--extracts from his Life of General Jackson, 180, 185, 198, 200, 209, 210, 212-214, 217, 219-221, 223, 227, 228, 231-233, 235, 237, 240, 242, 244, 295-297, 329, 333. Devens, Charles, Colonel of the Fifteenth Mass. Regiment, 65. Is engaged in the Battle of Ball's Bluff, 66-78; and escapes capture by swimming, 78. Donely, Colonel, commands Federal brigade under Banks, 39, 201, 202, 204, 230, 234-236. Mortally wounded at the battle of Cedar Mountain, 304. Duff, Captain, 68. Dunning, Colonel, commands Federal brigade, 154. Dwight, Wilder, applies for a commission in the Second Mass. Regiment, 4; among the first to aid General Gordon in enlisting and forming the same, 6-9. Goes to Washington to get President's authority to raise a regiment for the war, 8, 9. President of a Court-martial, 57. Commands the regiment in the absence of General Gordon, 84, 85. His experience with a Rebel woman, 106. Commands the rear in General Gordon's retrea