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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)
d take the road to Poolsville, distant about eight miles. Our course was westerly, and towards the most distant point in the abrupt bend of the Potomac at Conrad's Ferry. Until we reached Poolsville, which was at one o'clock in the morning of the 22d, I had no definite idea of the purpose of our march. That General Stone had crossed into Virginia, and that we were to follow and sustain or co-operate, was my belief. But now came the first droppings of disaster: dark figures standing by the roter soon followed. Instructions delivered on the road from Stone met General Hamilton: these were, to repair to Conrad's Ferry, and there dispose of his force so as to protect Harrison's Island. The rain poured piteously upon us all day of the 22d, as all day fugitives and wounded came into our lines. Parts of three regiments were utterly demoralized and routed, and yet there was a plucky feeling among some of them. A bright youth of the Fifteenth Massachusetts Regiment, from Worcester,
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 3: through Harper's Ferry to Winchester—The Valley of the Shenandoah. (search)
he preceding two days began on the very day that we left Winchester for Centreville. On that day the enemy under command of Stonewall Jackson showed himself one mile south of Winchester, in the edge of woods that skirt the town. This was on the 22d. Banks was still in Winchester, and so was the second division of his corps under General Shields; but Jackson did not know that, nor did Ashby (who with two to three hundred cavalry and guns from Chew's battery was making the preliminary demonst part of his army had left, and that nothing remained but a few regiments to garrison the place. He knew that the people would convey false information to Jackson at New Market, as indeed they did, for Jackson turned instantly in pursuit. On the 22d, when Ashby drove in Shields's pickets, he discovered only what he supposed to be a single brigade. On the 23d, when Jackson attacked, he soon found he had caught a tartar. His force of 4,000 was opposed, not to 2,000 less than his own, but to
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 6: battle of Winchester (continued)—Federal retreat across the Potomac to Williamsport. (search)
th of June the Secretary of War specifically assigned to me the command of my old brigade; Special orders, no. 138.War Department, Adjutant-General's Office, Washington, June 18, 1862. 9th. Brigadier-General George H. Gordon, U. S. Vols., is assigned to duty in the Department of the Shenandoah, to take command of the brigade now under Brigadier-General Greene, and will report in person to Major-General Banks. By order of the Secretary of War. L. Thomas, Adjt.-General. 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 Un