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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 1: from Massachusetts to Virginia. (search)
or it is from this latter date that the commencement of service in the United States Army is determined. Upon this, Mr. Quint has shown, in the history of the Second, that, though some of our companies were mustered into the service as early as May 18, as a whole it was full prior to any of the designated six regiments. It is not known why the commission of the colonel of the First Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers was dated May 22, while that of the colonel of the Second was dated May 24; nor is it important, in the light of the fact that the Second Regiment was the first mustered into the service of the United States, as it was the first accepted by the United States. I have said there were exceptions, two or three, to be noted in the character of my selections of officers; and as illustrating precisely wherein a man, without being vicious, might fail in the requirements of a good officer, I will allude to the case of a captain whom I had received upon his own applicatio
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 5: return to Strasburg (continued)—Banks's flight to Winchester—Battle of Winchester. (search)
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 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 of Jackson, p. 94. The main body of his command had diverged by mistake to the right, by the steep and narrow by-path taken by the advance when they gained the Gooney Manor Road (the road frort. the column pushed forward. We had been detained about an hour. Donelly's brigade and a wagon-train entered Winchester early in the afternoon of the twenty-fourth of May, without sight or sound of an enemy; but our fate was different, and was as follows: Notwithstanding the confusion, Occasioned by wagons being ordered
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 6: battle of Winchester (continued)—Federal retreat across the Potomac to Williamsport. (search)
crowd of fugitives,not until these were over, could we fairly estimate the sum total of our achievements. Between the 24th of May, at eleven o'clock, A. M., and near midnight of the 25th, my brigade had marched from Strasburg to Williamsport, a disBrig.-Gen. U. S. V. signed by all the officers of rank who were cognizant of or had participated in the events of the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth of May. This paper, containing most flattering references to my brigade, was the more acceptable, ater our arrival at Williamsport to Governor Andrew, of Massachusetts. This final act, connected with the days of the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth of May, requires explanation. In July of 1861 it came to my knowledge that the congressional deleund, and went into camp at Bartonsville, where the Second had so ably arrested Jackson's march in the night of the twenty-fourth of May. On the twelfth of June, at Washington, my commission as brigadier-general of volunteers was handed me, accompa