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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)
enemy. Although I made haste to relieve the gallant operators from their voluntary guard duty, I do not remember what message I sent to General Banks's assistant adjutant-general's clerk, by whom I was requested to make a report. Headquarters Department Shenandoah, New Market, Va., May 10, 1862. Please report by bearer if the two companies detailed have been sent from your command. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, R. Morris Copeland, Maj. Vols. and Act. Adjt.-Gen. per Whittemore, Clerk. In the middle of a vast clover-field just on the outskirts of the town my regiment, with the others of my brigade, were encamped. By orders from Washington we were to fortify Strasburg; Why the Government should have treated Front Royal as an outpost and Strasburg as the main place to be defended it is impossible to explain. Invited by General Banks, upon his accession to Patterson's command, to come to him at any and all times with such suggestions upon military affairs a