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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 3 1 Browse Search
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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)
with a merciless and resolved rebel force; so they walked on tiptoe where should have been a ringing tramp. Against such a condition of things, it was urged, McClellan will provide; he is fortifying himself at Washington, on the west at Alexandria, and on the north, within eighteen miles of us, at Tennallytown; he will not leave Washington defenceless. On the nineteenth of October five of our friends from Boston dined with us at the headquarters' mess-table,--Messrs. Sidney Bartlett, William Amory and son, Jefferson Coolidge, and F. D'Hauteville. The dinner we gave them is, I am told, still fragrant in their memory. If I had informed our sympathizing and pitying friends at home of the four chickens happily roasted, of the tenderly boiled leg of mutton and its rich surroundings of butter sauce, of the sweet and Irish potatoes, of the tomatoes, Indian pudding, and whiskey and water that made up the fare of the suffering soldier in the field, I fear the New York Tribune would have