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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 1: from Massachusetts to Virginia. (search)
Copeland, designated for the office of quartermaster, to find within a convenient distance of Boston a suitable spot for a camping-ground. The numbers of enlisted men on the date of their arrival at camp were as follows:-- Captain AbbottfullMay 11. Captain Coggswell75 menMay 14. Captain Savage42 menMay 14. Captain Whitney78 menMay 14. Captain Underwood82 menMay 15. Captain Quincy80 menMay 20. I find among my papers a sheet, on one side of which, in my own handwriting, is a list o thought that pledging a social glass with his corporal was an act by a captain of a company of no significance, when judged by the light of peaceful militia camp-life, to the third of August, the Governor grew rapidly in wisdom. From the eleventh of May to the eighth of July, 1861, the regiment was in camp on Brook Farm, in West Roxbury. To the discipline of that encampment is due the general character and reputation which attended the regiment, wherever it formed an element of an army. I
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 4: the Valley of the Shenandoah (continued)—Return to Strasburg. (search)
Save that I here tied a sutler to a tree and confiscated all his stock for selling liquor to my men, I accomplished nothing that tended to a result. On the eighth of May, returning from the mountain, we again pitched our tents in New Market. I do not recall more sleepy and dreamy hours than for a few days were passed there while awaiting the order to return to Strasburg. The official report of the evacuation by the enemy of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va., we received on Sunday the eleventh of May, the anniversary of the day on which the Second Massachusetts Regiment was mustered into the service of the United States for three years or the war. New Orleans, Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Yorktown had been snatched from Rebel grasp, and we counted as surely upon Richmond to follow; so in noisy demonstrations with the bands we celebrated our anniversary, saddened by the reflection that to us had fallen only the task of holding Strasburg for the protection of the valley. On the thir