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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)
o play, and I released the officers from recitation for the day. At this time came the news of General Stone's arrest and confinement in Fort Lafayette. Why, was not known then, and has never been known since; but as he still lives, to him the people must look for his vindication. No wonder we were impatient to join in the movements that seemed to be closing in around the doomed traitors, as we called them. They can't recover from this, we cried. Impatiently we waited. The twenty-second day of February, Abraham Lincoln, as Constitutional commander of the Armies and Navies of the United States, appointed for General McClellan to move against the enemy. The President ordered it; and now, exulting in our prospects, we celebrated the birthday of Washington throughout the United States with joy: we cheered for the victory that had followed victory. The hope that cheered us, we trusted, brought despair to our foe; the clouds were breaking away, and at last there was sunshine in our
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 3: through Harper's Ferry to Winchester—The Valley of the Shenandoah. (search)
ck A. M., of the tenth of March. While Congress had been sitting in judgment upon McClellan, condemning his policy and his plans, discussing his movements and misapprehending his motives, as if it had become a body of mis-representatives with the single purpose of decrying the commander of the Army of the Potomac, General McClellan had been carefully and methodically preparing his vast army for the field. I have referred to the onward movement ordered by the President on the twenty-second of February, with General McClellan in command of the grand army of the Potomac, organized into its several divisionary corps, under McDowell, Sumner, Heintzelman, Keyes, and Banks. Halleck was in charge of a department at the West, and Fremont in charge of the Mountain Department. It is with Banks's corps that our interest lies. While the others were to move on their devious way up the peninsula to Yorktown, Williamsburg, the Chickahominy, and the James, we were to move up the valley of th