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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 3: through Harper's Ferry to Winchester—The Valley of the Shenandoah. (search)
as his slave that I was ordered in 1861 to catch and return from Harper's Ferry), who in a polite note begged the favor of my protection for his family, consisting of Mrs. Ranson in delicate health, his daughter and her child, and himself their sole protector. Recalling, the note continued, our brief interview last summer, at Harper's Ferry, I congratulate myself in appealing to one who so favorably impressed me upon that occasion. Hovering over a stove in my tent on the night of the sixth of March,--it was bitter cold,--I wore away the evening until late, in a vain effort to read by a wretched candle stuck in a splinter of wood for a stand; and then, with a sense of uneasiness, a presage that some disagreeable duty was impending, I invoked slumber,--though in vain, for hardly had I lost myself when an orderly, galloping through my camp, halted at my tent, with despatches for Colonel Gordon. With matches ready, I struck a light and read as follows : General Abercrombie wi