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Chapter
2
:
Harper's Ferry
and
Maryland Heights
—Darnstown,
Maryland
.--
Muddy Branch
and
Seneca Creek
on the
Potomac
—Winter quarters at
Frederick, Md.
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and on the 22d, after a fruitless effort on the preceding day by rail, via Manassas, to reach Front Royal, to which place my command had moved from Bartonsville, I shook the dust of Washington from my feet, not to return to it again for two months, when, as part of a wrecked and broken army, we made our way across the Potomac to fight under McClellan at Antietam, for the safety of Maryland and the North.
Before leaving Washington, I enlightened the Committee on the Conduct of the War upon the subject of Union guards over enemy's property, upon which political soldiers were much exercised.
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