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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 7: the Army of Virginia under General Pope—Battle of Cedar Mountain. (search)
commissary seized cattle, as they were moving from their quiet folds in the early morning to their wellknown pastures, and doomed them to the shambles for our troops. We were beginning to live upon the country. When General Banks, on the fifth of July, returned from Washington he was despondent. At his mess-table the next morning, in the presence of some eight officers and their servants, with an indiscretion unusual to him, he spoke of rumors afloat in Washington of disaster to Mc-Clellarview after his return from Washington, in which I labored hard to get some hope out of our heavy despair from disastrous reports, was so intensely satisfactory that I cannot forbear giving it in this history. It was on the evening of the fifth of July, the day Banks arrived at the headquarters of his corps, that I rode to his tent, dismounted, and engaged with our austere chieftain in the following animated conversation:-- What information have you brought back to us, General? None,