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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)
s far below the freezing point, but the roads were in good order, the men inspirited. We were to lead the brigade, provided no other regiment caught us; therefore I ordered the regiment to do its best. We made sixteen miles in four and one half hours, nine of them without a halt. I know how much this march tired a foot-man, for I walked the whole of it: my orderly led my horse. We did lead the brigade to Frederick, and there, in its outskirts, we passed the night; and next day, the fifth of December, notwithstanding the assurances of General Banks to me that it was not the intention to put our army into winter quarters, only to place them where they could be moved easily by rail, we went into winter quarters, and remained until the twenty-seventh day of February, in the year 18&2. On the turnpike, towards Baltimore, about three miles from Frederick City, in Maryland, turn to the left and follow for a few rods a small stream, and it will lead to a fine growth of timber, which, g