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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)
ntain; nor would the rank and file that made so rich the history of the Second, with their sublime courage on many historic fields, have put away the cup from their lips, but would have drunk it even to the very dregs. It was on the twenty-first day of October that an order, issuing from General Banks, to hold ourselves in readiness, with five days rations, cooked and uncooked, and to report for orders to Brigadier-General Hamilton commanding the Second Brigade, was followed within a short t Devens with his command had been transferred to the Virginia shore. Then Colonel Lee, with two companies, numbering one hundred and one men, crossed for the duty designated in the order. It was about five o'clock in the morning of the twenty-first of October, not yet daylight. From the water's edge the bluff rose at an angle of thirty degrees for one hundred feet before reaching the plateau above. Climbing the zigzag foot-path, Colonel Lee reported to Devens that his command was in positio