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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)
and by authority of the rules and articles of war, I have the honor respectfully to await further orders in relation to the releasing of this soldier from confinement and restoring him to duty with his company. I have no record of what became of the subject of this correspondence; but I presume it did no more to mar our amicable relations than it had efficacy in impressing upon General-Banks the conviction that he was acting the r6le of a general in command, for under date of the thirty-first of December I find a note from him, addressing me from headquarters, Frederick, Maryland, as My dear sir, and continuing, If not any interference with arrangements for your regiment to-morrow, I should esteem it a favor if you would allow your band to visit my headquarters for a couple of hours, say from eleven to one o'clock; for their trouble I will gladly satisfy them. On the sixteenth of February we were anxiously awaiting news from Fort Donelson. Our line of attack against the Rebellio