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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 7: the Army of Virginia under General Pope—Battle of Cedar Mountain. (search)
received by each regiment in the orthodox style of the regulation,--three ruffles from the drum, the march, the colors drooped, and a present-arms. Now when Pope was receiving these regulation tokens of respect from the left regiment of the brigade in my front, what did that incorrigible Twenty-seventh Indiana do, on the left of my line, but put the whole paragraph of ruffles, marches, and droops in, and all in the wrong place,--the colonel commanding looking on meanwhile as blandly as did Pickwick when he awoke in the pound as a trespasser upon the lands of the fierce Captain Boldwig. My feelings were indescribable. I fancied Pope looked like Captain Boldwig, when that worthy discovered the handbarrow and heard the words cold punch muttered as his baptismal name by the unhappy Pickwick; at all events, we knew that we had lost what otherwise would have been an easy victory. There was no reserve about General Pope; he let out in censure with such vigor, that if words had been miss