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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)
mmand from the Army of the Potomac to proceed with the whole to Cairo, Ill. I confess my hopes were somewhat dashed as I read Captain Cary's first letter from Baltimore, upon his arrival, in which, after writing that he started with sixty-six of the worst men of the Division, nearly all of them drunk, and with no guard but two men, one of whom he begged of the provost marshal, he found himself on the way to Baltimore with sixty men of Stone's Division as bad as his own, in charge of Lieutenant Raguet of General Gorman's staff. Having arrived too late to join the main body, which had started, the captain was obliged to put his men in a room, leaving his two reliable guards with revolvers at the door of entrance; but, alas! upon his return in the morning the captain found that thirty of his veterans had escaped through a rear door which they had broken open. Obliged to go on with the remainder, he had employed all the police force of Baltimore to look after the absentees. The cap