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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)
again pitched our tents in New Market. I do not recall more sleepy and dreamy hours than for a few days were passed there while awaiting the order to return to Strasburg. The official report of the evacuation by the enemy of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va., we received on Sunday the eleventh of May, the anniversary of the day on which the Second Massachusetts Regiment was mustered into the service of the United States for three years or the war. New Orleans, Norfolk, Portsmouth, and YorktowPortsmouth, and Yorktown had been snatched from Rebel grasp, and we counted as surely upon Richmond to follow; so in noisy demonstrations with the bands we celebrated our anniversary, saddened by the reflection that to us had fallen only the task of holding Strasburg for the protection of the valley. On the thirteenth of May Williams's division re-entered Strasburg. The roads, the bridges, the scenes, and the people were little changed; but the contrast between the advancing and retreating march was most noticeabl