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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)
fear the New York Tribune would have howled Onward to Richmond! with more relentless energy than ever before. At this date, too, a rumor reached us that there had been a fight at Harper's Ferry, with a report that a Colonel Ashby, as prisoner, had just passed through our camp to headquarters. Nine days before, our Captain Tompkins, commanding the Rhode Island Battery at Sandy Hook, had written me that there were fourteen hundred Rebels at Halltown witl two twelve-pounders, and that a Major Gould wished him to take his guns over to-day. As the river is very high, writes the captain, should we, under such circumstances, be obliged to retreat, we shall have a rough time of it. This was about all there was to the whole rumor. The captain had more wisdom than the major. Had it been otherwise, the lesson to be learned from crossing an unfordable stream to attack a superior force, relying upon artillery, with no bridge or preparation to return in case of defeat, might have saved us
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 8: battle of Cedar Mountain (continued). (search)
of Crawford's brigade alone, as claimed by Major Gould in the History of the First, Tenth, and Tweust feel to depict. One of the officers Major Gould. See History of Maine in the War. of thisof death, between those belts of timber. Major Gould: History of the First, Tenth, and Twenty-ni to direct it to do so. Major Pelouze to Major Gould (letter), in the History of the Tenth Mainee remainder of the brigade. The hour, says Major Gould, was about sunset, and the enemy's fire so mes longer than that of the Tenth Maine, Major Gould: History of the First, Tenth, and Twenty-niield. The enemy said it was a plucky act. Major Gould: History of the First, Tenth, and Twenty-niy, reference is made to the full details in Major Gould's History. The events that transpired hetimated at from thirty minutes to five; Major Gould thinks the latter most probable. its loss wled and wounded. Our position, as given by Major Gould, was a little to the rear of that regiment
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 9: battle of Cedar Mountain (continued). (search)
e field where my troops were then fighting. I never sent you such an order, retorted Banks. I am glad to know it, I replied; it would have resuited in our total destruction. So important an order, and so direct a denial, demand that the circumstances attending its reception should be given in full When Major Pelouze was attempting to move the Tenth Maine forward in the wheat-field, an officer passed him, saying he had orders for Gordon's brigade, Colonel Pelouze, letter to Major Gould, in the History of the First, Tenth, and Twenty-ninth Maine. then on the right. In the midst of the struggle of my brigade with the enemy, an officer, representing himself as sent by Banks, coming through the woods, rode up to me, saying, General Banks wishes you to charge across that field. With what had transpired already in my front, the astonishment this order caused may well be conceived. What field? I asked in amazement. I don't know, was the reply. I suppose this field
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 10: General Banks's orders and responsibility. (search)
m with a fury which for a brief moment seemed about to triumph over all odds and advantages, but which, without support or reserves, presently expended itself and fell back from the unequal contest exhausted and impotent. Says an officer Major Gould. of the Tenth Maine, in his history of that regiment at Cedar Mountain: The fact still remains, that it was a shockingly mismanaged battle; and every man of us knows now, what General Gordon and Colonel Beals believed then, that the woods was presented to the country, and the measure of praise or censure be correctly fixed upon the parties concerned. To give Banks all the measure of praise we can, I am willing to admit here the following from Crawford, Letter from Crawford to Major Gould, in History of the First, Tenth, and Twenty-ninth Maine. in his attempt to defend Banks against Pope: My positive orders were, when ordered out of Culpeper on the 8th, to resist the approach of the enemy at all hazards,--and this with one brig
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Index (search)
son in his fight with Shields, and is relieved of his command, 127. In battle of Cedar Mountain, 292. Geary, Colonel, Federal officer under Banks, 44, 45, 47, 279, 294, 295, 298, 299. Is wounded in the battle of Cedar Mountain, 319. German, a ferocious and valiant, exploits of, 131. Goodwin, Captain, of the Second Mass. Regiment, 13. Is sick at Little Washington, 277. Killed in the battle of Cedar Mountain, 311, 332. Gorman, General, Federal officer in Civil War, 113, 116. Gould, Major, historian of the Tenth Maine Regiment, 301, 302 (and notes), 316 (note), 349. Grafton, Lieutenant, 219. Greene, George S., commands a brigade under Banks, 226, 257. H Hall and Lounsburg, telegraph operators, who saved a bridge from destruction, 172 (note). Hamilton, General, commands Federal troops in Civil War, 62, 113, 114. Hardy, Captain, 76. Hatch, General, commander of Federal Cavalry, 162. Forms the rearguard in Banks's retreat from Strasburg, 201. Is met