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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)
ut eighteen years of age. She had been in the regiment about a month; until within a day or two there had been no suspicion of her sex. I am not aware that her presence tended to elevate the standard of character in her company. She could smoke a pipe and swear like a veteran. I ordered her to be discharged, for which I may yet be denounced and politically doomed. It was here, too, that the Governor of Connecticut sent a commission of second lieutenant to the band-leader of Colonel 0. S. Ferry's regiment, the Fifth Connecticut, Congress having enacted that a band-leader should receive the pay and allowance of a second lieutenant of infantry. The colonel appealed to me; what should he do? Shall I consider the band a yuasi company, he asks, under orders of a second lieutenant? The band-leader says, General Banks tells him his office is that of second lieutenant, but his functions must be limited to the band. What becomes of the drum-major? If I ani ordered to detail an officer