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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain 4 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 1 1 Browse Search
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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)
thirteenth of December, I alluded to the actual necessity of commissioning efficient men, insisted that there was no time now to establish a school of instruction, and again presented the names of P. R. Mason and H. B. Scott, to whioh I added John A. Fox to fill the vacancy occasioned by the promotion of T. R. Robeson. My gentle hint that those two young gentlemen whom the Governor proposed to send me in the places of my nominees might be severely tested by an examination, brought the reply f been eight resignations of officers in our regiment,--resignations, almost without exception, to take a higher rank elsewhere. We had lost Curtis and Higginson and others, and we had received as second lieutenants, to fill vacancies, Shelton and Fox, and Crowninshield, Oakey, and Scott. I repeat, the controversy closed for us most happily; for it gave the regiment, as one of Governor Andrew's appointees whom I did not nominate, Daniel Oakey; and it gave us, as commissioned officers whom I di