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A. J. Bennett, private , First Massachusetts Light Battery, The story of the First Massachusetts Light Battery , attached to the Sixth Army Corps : glance at events in the armies of the Potomac and Shenandoah, from the summer of 1861 to the autumn of 1864., Chapter 5
Chapter 5:
The Maryland campaign of 1862
along the route
Pleasant Valley
south Mountain
Antietam
reminiscences of the sojourn in Maryland after the battle of Antietam
The Sixth Corps moved to Fairfax, C. H., where a brief halt was made.
On the afternoon of the first of September, we passed Fairfax Seminary on the edge of the county, four miles from Alexandria, and a few minutes later crossed the field to the Leesburg pike, through our last winter's camp.
We noticed a tiny Union flag flying from a pole nailed to John Going's gable.
As it was alleged that John had said he would rot in Fort Ellsworth before he would raise the Union colors, and as John was not at home, it would seem that some one had kindly planted the flag for him.
We crossed Cameron Run, and marched across the country at though making for Arlington Heights; but when in sight of Fort Albany we moved east, along the line of the Alexandria and Loudon Railroad, struck the Washington road, and cross