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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 1: from Massachusetts to Virginia. (search)
stomers as finally to make us mad, I doubt not we should have been paying for the ploughing of Virginia fields today. It having been found by General Joe Johnston that he could do us much more injury by uniting his forces with the troops of Beauregard than by remaining at Winchester, he did not trouble himself much about our appearance on the north of that noted town, but made all his preparations to leave. Some one evidently thought that Johnston would prefer Patterson to McDowell, Winchester to Washington; and so Johnston pretended, but without impairing his ability to effect a union with Beauregard. When Patterson placed himself where he could not reinforce McDowell, Johnston gently and joyously moved south and east for Manassas. This bit of deception, unchivalric for chivalry, sent my regiment to Harper's Ferry,--the first Union regiment, after the rebellion broke out, to enter there. The day after its arrival at Charlestown,--to wit, on the morning of the eighteenth of J
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)
ence of opinion as to the conduct and government of a regiment, that I thought it but natural my course should have displeased the Pennsylvania volunteers for three months, who, when they groaned, were absolutely marching to their homes with the sound of the enemy's guns in their ears, turning their faces homeward against the entreaties and supplications of their commander, General Patterson, that they would remain and strike one blow to prevent, if possible, the junction of Johnston with Beauregard at Manassas. But in vain: their time was out, home they would go; and home they went, on their way groaning the officers of this regiment in their disapprobation. It is needless to say, that, for any real cause, all the complaints in the letter were as little worthy attention as this. There was also a letter from a Massachusetts Senator in Congress, dated August 12, saying: Many of your men are writing home letters stating they are suffering for food, and these letters are having grea