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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 8: from the battle of Bull Run to Paducah--Kentucky and Missouri. 1861-1862. (search)
vania under General Patterson, and, at the time I speak of, had moved forward to Hagerstown and. Williamsport, on the Potomac River. My brother, John Sherman, was a volunteer aide-de-camp to General Patterson, and, toward the end of June, I went upry act of moving, and we rode down to Williamsport in a buggy, and were present when the leading division crossed the Potomac River by fording it waist-deep. My friend and classmate, George H. Thomas, was there, in command of a brigade in the leadit in earnest to defend its rights and property, some general compromise would result. Patterson's army crossed the Potomac River on the 1st or 2d of July, and, as John Sherman was to take his seat as a Senator in the called session of Congress, thouse which had been built for the defense of the aqueduct, when I saw a carriage coming by the road that crossed the Potomac River at George-town by a ferry. I thought I recognized in the carriage the person of President Lincoln. I hurried across