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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)
or a time, but he was never suffered to consider himself a second lieutenant. And it was at camp in Darnstown that the exasperated soldier of a regiment of volunteers, tied to a wagon-tail, by order of the major of his regiment, for insubordination and drunkenness, gnawing off his thongs, shot the major dead with his musket as they were passing my encampment. For this act the soldier was tried by a Court, sitting on our grounds, of which Major Wilder Dwight was President. On the seventh of October, in observance of a day of fasting and prayer which the President of the United States had suggested, the whole division moved to a field, where, formed in close columns of battalions, they stood with uncovered heads before a stand, from which, after prayers, a sermon by the chaplain of the Second was delivered. There, accompanied by all the regimental bands, a mighty sound rolled upward in the majestic strains of Old Hundred, as with united voice the whole division sang these verses