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The Daily Dispatch: December 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], An interesting letter. (search)
F. --The original company was commanded by well known in military cles; but he being under arrest and awaiting a trial by Court Martial, (since honorably acquitted) Lieut. Cummings was in authority. This corps did not remain with us long, Gen. Longstreet finding it necessary to send them to Manassas, without arms, for open mutiny against their commanding officer. They have since been disbanded, and their several Lieutenants assigned to another branch of the service. On the 11th day of August we took up our march for Fairfax Court- House, arriving there at dark, as tired a set, of men as I ever saw. We reached the Court-House on Saturday night, and on Sunday morning pitched our tents on the left of the road, and just below the village, where we remained until the night of the 16th of October, when the whole army of the Potomac retreated. Our life, while encamped at Fairfax, was by far the most arduous that we have experienced, going alternately to Falls Church and Anan