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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)
e First California, to send that regiment to Conrad's Ferry, to arrive there at sunrise of the 21st, and have the remainder of his brigade ready to move early. The remainder of the Fifteenth Regiment, under command of Lieutenant-Colonel Ward, was also ordered to be on the tow-path of the canal opposite Harrison's Island at daybreak. Two mountain howitzers, in charge of Lieutenant French, of Ripley's Battery, were also ordered to be at the same place at the same time. Towards morning of the 21st, Colonel Devens began to cross his five companies into Virginia. All told, his force numbered three hundred and fifty men. The means available for crossing were two boats, one a metallic life-boat, capable of carrying ten or twelve men at a time; the other a common flat-bottomed boat, used for ducking purposes, and capable of holding from six to eight men if closely stowed. In two or three hours, Devens with his command had been transferred to the Virginia shore. Then Colonel Lee, with tw
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 3: through Harper's Ferry to Winchester—The Valley of the Shenandoah. (search)
aching with a Federal force greatly superior to his own, was within four miles of Winchester, Jackson, on March 12, fell slowly back to Strasburg, eighteen miles, in two days, remaining there undisturbed until the 16th, when, finding that the Federal army was again advancing, he fell back to Mount Jackson, twentyfour miles, his adversary halting at Strasburg. I received these reports on the 19th, and suggested that his distance was too great from the Federal army for objects in view. On the 21st he acknowledged this, and said that he was about to move his headquarters to Woodstock, twelve miles from the enemy's camp. At about half-past 6 A. M., on the 23d, at Strasburg, he expressed a hope that he should be near Winchester that afternoon; and at ten o'clock that night he wrote in his brief manner that he attacked the Federal army at four P. M., and was repulsed by it at dark. He gave his force as three thousand and eighty-seven infantry, two hundred and ninety cavalry, and twenty-s
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 6: battle of Winchester (continued)—Federal retreat across the Potomac to Williamsport. (search)
ve hundred wagons, of which number fifty-five were lost. They were not, with few exceptions, abandoned to the enemy, but were burned I never heard of any wagons burned upon the road but the nine I destroyed near Newtown. I never heard of our recapture of the six miles of wagons, taken by the enemy between Strasburg and Middletown. upon the road. Nearly all of our supplies were thus saved. But the stores at Front Royal, of which he had no knowledge until his visit to that post on the 21st inst., and those at Winchester, of which a considerable portion was destroyed by our troops, are not embraced in this statement. Quint Chaplain Second Massachusetts, in Record of Second Massachusetts infantry. says, A wagon-train eight miles long lost only fifty wagons, and we brought off all our artillery, losing only one caisson. The enemy's account of his captures is put with force: The complete success of our efforts can never be known. We have captured thousands of prisoners, kill
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 7: the Army of Virginia under General PopeBattle of Cedar Mountain. (search)
ac, and was intended to please the Chandlers, and such-like war-horses of the Administration, who were then comparing McClellan to an old woman with a broom. Although the newspapers laughed at Pope, and criticised his Falstaffian pretences, and dubbed him five-cent Pope; Headquarters Army of Virginia, Washington, July 26, 1862. Captain Samuel L. Harrison, of the Ninety-fifth Regiment of New York Volunteers, is reported by his commanding general as having deserted his company on the 21st of the month, and gone to New York. A reward of five cents is offered for his apprehension. By order of Major-General Pope. George D. Ruggles, Chief of Staf. and although every man in his army wondered if he were not a weak and silly man,--there were none who fell away in fervor or determination to do all that mortals could do to retrieve the losses sustained by the Army of the Potomac, be it under Pope or the Devil himself. On the twentyninth of July, we were favored with the actual p