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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Preface. (search)
a and A War Diary of events in the great Rebellion, continue, with the present volume, my history in chronological order to the end of the war. ond Massachusetts Infantry at the house, the camp and the evening parade, on the fields of the old historic Brook Farm at West Roxbury, are taken from large sketches of house, camp, and field, made on the ground by a private soldier of the Regiment during our occupancy in the spring of 1861. The winter encampment near Frederick, in Maryland, in 1861-1862, is a reproduction of a sketch made by a German artist while we were in camp there. The reports of officers are taken, some from originals in my possession, some from Moore's Rebellion Record, and others from the Official Records of the Union and Confederate armies, published pursuant to an Act of Congress, approved June 16, 1880. A large number of papers, contemporaneous with the facts and incidents treated in this volume, carefully preserved and filed away at the close of the war, are
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 3: through Harper's Ferry to Winchester—The Valley of the Shenandoah. (search)
rst Monitor off James River, so providential as it seemed, moved the fears of some of us that the end was about coming, and that with the flight of Jackson our last chance for a fight was gone. Though the country might not be restored in July, of 1862, there was no doubt the war would be over then, said those whom neither reason nor reproach could reach. When General McClellan's order of movement and strong appeal to his army appeared, I learned of the disposition to be made of our corps. Again the destiny of the Second Regiment gave it a new brigade commander; one that shared with it all the eventful scenes, with the attendant joys and sorrows, that so largely entered into the year of 1862. We were to be no more to General Abercrombie. General Hamilton was, by order of General McClellan, transferred to another corps in his army, and my regiment sent to the brigade lately commanded by Hamilton. As senior colonel, I thus became the commander of a brigade which, then for the firs
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 4: the Valley of the Shenandoah (continued)—Return to Strasburg. (search)
their children. Truly might the slave see the hour of his deliverance, and know that the hand of God was moving manifestly upon the waters. Since that day the light tread of our column has given place to a heavier tramp. Year after year the iron hoof of war has ploughed up that beautiful valley, until desolation marked it for its own. If the poor woman then sitting at the head of a table which was surrounded by myself and my staff still lives, she will remember that in those early days of 1862 I said to her, Your people are mad; they are raising a storm that will not subside. To-day we are taking your food and your cattle; but to-morrow, so far does the living force of powerful armies outrun our realizations, to-morrow it may be your homes. Let the blackened walls of the houses of the Shenandoah Valley be my witness. But what had become of Jackson? We had rumors that he had turned off from the valley of the North Fork, and was somewhere in the ridges of the Blue Mountains to
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 5: return to Strasburg (continued)—Banks's flight to Winchester—Battle of Winchester. (search)
ckson's letter to Lee, April 23, given in substance in Campaign in the Valley of Virginia in 1861-1862. By William Allan, Lieutenant-Colonel, etc., A. N. V. Jackson's army at this time numbered six ton him all the disadvantages of a night attack. See Campaign in the Valley of Virginia in 1861-1862, by William Allan, from which, on page 80, this extract from Dabney's Life of Jackson, p. 351, isry clear account given by Colonel William Allan in his Campaign in the Valley of Virginia in 1861-1862. In utter ignorance, as I believe, of Jackson's movements on MacDowell as here recorded, and,racticable, that he designed threatening that line. Campaign in the Valley of Virginia in 1861-1862, p. 88. On the morning of the eighteenth of May General Jackson was at Mount Crawford, Bat,000 men, with 11 batteries, containing 48 guns. See Campaign in the Valley of Virginia in 1861--1862. were to be precipitated upon the six thousand four hundred and eight infantry, cavalry, and ar
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 6: battle of Winchester (continued)—Federal retreat across the Potomac to Williamsport. (search)
old friend of yours. Friend of mine, sir? replied old Jack, --he was, sir, once a friend. Major Dwight retired, his request unheeded. As I write these lines, the name of T. J. Jackson, of Virginia, confronts me from a sheet filled with the autographs of my classmates at the Military Academy at West Point, reminding me of that boy companion to whom the dawn of life was as serious as its close,--that honest, dear old Jack, who as Lieutenant-General (Stonewall) Jackson remembered me, in 1862, no longer as a friend. Return now to the main street, through which, towards Martinsburg, moved the main column of our troops. An eager enemy was close upon us; there was no time for any arrangement or defence. Pursuers and pursued were swallowed from view, and the rout roared through every street with rattling rifle-shots and ringing cheers. Dabney's Life of Jackson, p. 104. In the main street I found myself, with my staff, in rear of a battery. All around and in front there was a
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 10: General Banks's orders and responsibility. (search)
band of the Second echoed as gayly through the streets, as we turned our backs on the town, as if no lives had been extinguished in our regiment, and no grief pressed heavily on our hearts. We marched onward to Alexandria, to the grave of the Army of Virginia. I have endeavored to portray from my own notes written on the field, from my own memory of what I saw and did, from contemporaneous papers and from official reports the facts that make up the battle of Cedar Mountain. In carefully and candidly dealing with all these facts, I have so endeavored to enlighten the public upon the matters herein set forth, that truth, which is said to be mighty, shall at last prevail. In this hope, let us pass to the record, in another volume, The Campaign of the Army of Virginia, under John Pope, etc., 1862. of the movements of the Army of Virginia, through the battles of the Second Manassas or Bull Run, and Chantilly, to the gathering at Alexandria on the eve of the battle of Antietam.