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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 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 1 1 Browse Search
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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 5: return to Strasburg (continued)—Banks's flight to Winchester—Battle of Winchester. (search)
owards Middletown, taking such steps to oppose the enemy (reported to be on the road between Front Royal and Middletown) as to General Williams may seem proper. The General is absent, but I have sent for him. Would it not be well to have the Third Brigade ready to debouch on the pike? Cothran's Battery is on the hill behind us, awaiting your orders. Will you notify him? Reports from Front Royal confirm Kenly's death and the cutting up of the First Maryland. Respectfully yours, Wm. D. Wilkins, Capt. and A. .G. Turning now to Jackson, it belongs to this history to follow his movements, and discover why he did not surround us at Strasburg before daylight of the twenty-fourth of May. Had Jackson moved on the night of the 23d, as he had intended, Cooke's Life of Jackson, p. 144. the morning of May 24 would have dawned upon his army surrounding Banks in Strasburg. It was an untoward event, a blunder, says a Southern writer, that delayed Jackson's march. Dabney's Life
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 6: battle of Winchester (continued)—Federal retreat across the Potomac to Williamsport. (search)
of the command, and in the engagement of the 25th, at Winchester, Virginia. He has the strongest confidence that its distinguished character and reputation will be maintained hereafter. The commanding-general commends to the just consideration of the brigade its new commander, General George S. Greene, as an officer of large experience and distinguished character. By command of Major-General N. P. Banks, D. D. Perkins, Major and A. A. A. Gen. By command of General A. S. Williams. Wm. D. Wilkins, Capt. and A. A. S. Official, S. E. Pittman, 1st Lieut. and A. D. C. one of the two supernumerary brigadiers who had accompanied us from Strasburg. In his order General Banks took especial care to speak in praise of the part taken by my brigade during the retreat. On the thirty-first of May a paper was handed me by General Hatch, Williamsport, Md., May 31, 1862. To the Hon. Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War. The undersigned officers of the army, serving in the Department of th