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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)
by another, dated the twenty-ninth of July, issued from Sandy Hook, in which three companies of the Second Massachusetts Reith branches remained pliant. In furnishing guards from Sandy Hook to Harper's Ferry; in closely watching the mounted scoutnal responsibility upon me; but this was in Maryland, at Sandy Hook. Colonel Gordon, Dr., the bill read. The items varied,ning. Our new position was designated on the 18th as at Sandy Hook. Here once more with our tents we were located upon an nd guarding the line of the river from Harper's Ferry to Sandy Hook, a distance of five eighths of a mile. The order desithe canal, through the tumbledown, slip-shod old town of Sandy Hook, had reported that signs of the enemy had been multiplyi mounted and rode hastily into that pestilential hole of Sandy Hook, to the telegraph office in the hotel. Buried in profouCaptain Tompkins, commanding the Rhode Island Battery at Sandy Hook, had written me that there were fourteen hundred Rebels
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 6: battle of Winchester (continued)—Federal retreat across the Potomac to Williamsport. (search)
overnor Andrew. In other States the excitement was scarcely less intense than in Massachusetts. New York sent her Eleventh Regiment of State Militia. It arrived at Harper's Ferry on the thirtieth of May; but the men refused to be sworn into the service of the United States unless they could dictate terms, which were, that they should go to Washington and be placed in a camp of instruction. These being rejected by officers of the United States army, the whole regiment marched over to Sandy Hook, where the troops slept upon it, with the result that eight companies took the oath, one asked for further time, and one started for home. On the twenty-eighth of May, General Banks thought it his duty to assign a full brigadier-general to the command of my brigade, and make the War Department responsible for the change. For this he selected General Greene, General order no. 26.Headquarters Department of the Shenandoah, Williamsport, Md., May 28, 1862. I. Brigadier-General Geo