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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)
eason why the complainant was not paid. Another sufferer tried it by endeavoring to fix a personal responsibility upon me; but this was in Maryland, at Sandy Hook. Colonel Gordon, Dr., the bill read. The items varied, but there was a monotonous sound of ham, jelly, and pickles; then there was an item for smashing a lock on a closet door; then something for damages to furniture and house. Whoever had the pickles had the spree: the Colonel of the Second Regiment had neither. From the 30th of July to the 17th of August--now melted by fierce heat, and now drenched with rain that poured at night in streams from that unmitigated blessing, a rubber blanket: with men, and sometimes officers, to-day impatient, grumbling, and capricious; to-morrow docile, earnest, and contented-time passed in the gradual acceptance of a discipline which not only controlled the habits, but exercised an influence even over the thoughts. By the 17th of August the alarm and excitement from an anticipated f