Browsing named entities in Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1. You can also browse the collection for Goose Creek (Virginia, United States) or search for Goose Creek (Virginia, United States) in all documents.

Your search returned 4 results in 1 document section:

Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 23: campaign of Gettysburg (search)
Shenandoah Valley, and there defeated Milroy at Winchester. The evening of June 17, 1863, I made this pencil note: Goose Creek, near Leesburg.-The weather has been very hot and dry. We have marched as follows: twelve miles, nineteen, eighteen; r My pencil note dated June 22, 1863, indicated the position of the Army of the Potomac to be: the Eleventh Corps at Goose Creek, not far from Leesburg, Va.; the Fifth, still under General Meade, somewhere near Adlie. The Second Corps had been pu by subordinate commanders, whom, to his chagrin, his seniors in authority sustained. On June 24th we were still at Goose Creek. The day before, my brother, the Rev. R. B. Howard, a member of the celebrated Christian Comimission. reached our caeyings from corps to corps, and circulated every sort of false story that might be made use of to mislead us. In this Goose Creek region we were much annoyed by them. It was near here that Mosby with his peculiar force of guerrillas came near capt