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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)
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 great influence. Can't this be righted? If this honorable Senator had been more of a soldier and less of a politician, he would not have asked such foolish questions. He would have known that irregularity in the supply of food is an inevitable accompaniment of the movement of armies, and that the better the soldier the less he grumbles a
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 26 (search)
usetts Senators begged their reluctant brothers to make him a Brigadier-General. Yes, Massachusetts Senators, thoroughly informed and put upon their guard, against the repeated remonstrance of their fellow-Senators, insisted on rewarding the mutineer. [t Shame, shame. ] A private, ignorant, uneducated, just mustered into the service, mutinied in the streets of Boston, and Colonel Lowell shot him rightfully. [Cheers.] A Massachusetts Colonel mutinied in the face of the enemy, and a Massachusetts Senator made him a Brigadier-General. Such Republicanism will never put down the rebellion. Colonel Stevenson said he had rather be whipped with white men than conquer with black men; and General Hunter took away his sword. When Adjutant-General Thomas went to the Southwest to muster negroes into our ranks, he lifted his index finger, and, pointing to Washington, said, The wind blows North there, and from Brigadier to Lieutenant every man closed his lips and denied all prejudice against