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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 1: from Massachusetts to Virginia. (search)
retary of War, repeating the former's request of the seventeenth instant, to which no reply had been made. The following letter to me from Major Dwight, dated April 25, is pertinent. It is as follows:-- Dear Gordon, If you think you cannot go to Washington this P. M., Andrews and myself are ready to start under your directtes, first in the letter of Governor Andrew, written on the seventeenth, and again by messengers sent direct to the President, repeating this offer, on the twenty-fifth of April. It is to be remembered that this regiment was not accepted by the President for the war, under his own call, on the third of May, for thirty-nine regimennts would be accepted. Governor Andrew, before the proclamation, had urged the General Government to accept other regiments in addition to mine. On the twenty-fifth of April he had written the Secretary of War, In addition to raising Gordon's regiment, we can send you four thousand more troops within a very short time after rec
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 4: the Valley of the Shenandoah (continued)—Return to Strasburg. (search)
d a boy. In her arms she carried a baby; and behind her children followed the faithful dog. To my question, she answered that she was going to her sick brother. Her home was in the mountains; but her husband having been driven from his home by some of Jackson's men who were forcing recruits into his service, she could not live there without his help. As soon as you come here to protect him, said the woman, he has promised to return home. What would I not give to see him! On the twenty-fifth of April, on Friday, we again moved with our whole force onward up the valley. Along by the base of the Massanutten range of mountains on our left, leaving our old friend the Shenandoah to the west, in which direction it runs to its sources in the North Mountains, we followed Smith's Creek until we reached Harrisonburg; and there encamped. We were eighteen miles from New Market, and about eighty from Winchester. At Harrisonburg we found that Jackson had changed his course. Having left the