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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 3: through Harper's Ferry to Winchester—The Valley of the Shenandoah. (search)
llery 27 pieces; of cavalry 290. The force under General Shields First brigade, Kimball's,--Eighth Ohio; Sixty-seventh Ohio; Fourteenth Indiana; Eighty-fourth Pennsylvania. Second brigade, Sullivan's, -Thirteenth Indiana; Fifth Ohio; Sixty-second Ohio; Thirty-ninth Illinois. Third brigade, Tyler's,--Seventh Ohio; Twenty-ninth Ohio; First Virginia; Seventh Indiana; One Hundred Tenth Pennsylvania. Daum's Artillery,--Jenks's Battery A, First Virginia; Clark's Battery E, Fourth Artillery; Davis's Battery B, First Virginia; Robinson's Battery L, First Ohio; Huntington's Battery H, First Ohio. Broadhead's Cavalry,four companies First Michigan; two companies Ohio; two companies Maryland; six companies First Virginia; two companies Ringgold and Washington cavalry. numbered in infantry 6,000, and in cavalry 750. There were also twenty-four pieces of artillery, and one company of Massachusetts sharp-shooters. The battle of Kernstown, as the Confederates call it, was fought on a hig
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 6: battle of Winchester (continued)—Federal retreat across the Potomac to Williamsport. (search)
ed my promotion to a brigadier-generalslip. The President of the United States in a personal interview informed me that the reason why he did not heed this recommendation was because the Governor of your State protests against it. Mr. Lincoln, at the time of making this reply, held in his hand a paper, from which he assumed to read the protest. On the 4th of June, 1862, Governor Andrew, in acknowledging my application for two surgeons, and informing me that he has sent Doctors Heath and Davis, adds, Permit me in closing to congratulate you, Colonel, upon your nomination for promotion to the rank of brigadiergeneral; and also upon the brilliant success achieved by the withdrawal of our forces, with so little loss, from the heart of the enemy's country and against a force so completely overwhelming. Was this consistent with a written protest against my promotion? On the tenth of June General Banks's corps recrossed the river at Williamsport, moved through Martinsburg and Wi