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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 1: from Massachusetts to Virginia. (search)
enlisted men on the date of their arrival at camp were as follows:-- Captain AbbottfullMay 11. Captain Coggswell75 menMay 14. Captain Savage42 menMay 14. Captain Whitney78 menMay 14. Captain Underwood82 menMay 15. Captain Quincy80 menMay 20. May 14. Captain Whitney78 menMay 14. Captain Underwood82 menMay 15. Captain Quincy80 menMay 20. I find among my papers a sheet, on one side of which, in my own handwriting, is a list of all the proposed officers of the regiment, from the colonel to the last second lieutenant, and on the other side a statement of the condition of the companMay 14. Captain Underwood82 menMay 15. Captain Quincy80 menMay 20. I find among my papers a sheet, on one side of which, in my own handwriting, is a list of all the proposed officers of the regiment, from the colonel to the last second lieutenant, and on the other side a statement of the condition of the companies, as follows: Abbott, full; Quincy, probably full; Savage, 80; Curtis, 80; Cary (Lowell men), 80; Underwood, 82; Tucker, 33; Goodwin, not noted; Whitney, full; Cogswell, full. The date of this paper (unfortunately it is a matter of surmise) must have been later than the fourteenth of May, for then, by the history of the Second, Captain Savage had but 42 men; but the whole record showed such numbers of enlisted men on the ninth of May, that an encampment became a necessity. To my lette
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 5: return to Strasburg (continued)—Banks's flight to Winchester—Battle of Winchester. (search)
te his forces. A courier was sent at once to Ewell with this announcement, and one half of Monday the twelfth of May granted to the soldiers in lieu of the whole of Sunday, which had been devoted to secular concerns. On the evening of the fourteenth of May Jackson reached MacDowell again, and on the 17th, turning towards Harrisonburg, encamped at Mossy Creek and Bridgewater. For many facts in this narration of Jackson's movements. on MacDowell, I am indebted to the very clear account give I know, of the contemplated attack upon Banks, we had remained serenely tranquil at Harrisonburg until the fifth of May, when, as narrated, Shields's division marched towards Fredericksburg to join General McDowell at that place. On the fourteenth of May General Lee heard of Shields's movement towards Front Royal, and wrote Jackson that it was very desirable to prevent Banks from going either to Fredericksburg or to the peninsula, and that a successful blow struck would delay if it did not