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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)
d commanders and troops to guard the Potomac from Williamsport on the north to the mouth of the Monocacy on the south. Hyattstown, about twenty-six miles from Washington, was to be the headquarters of General Banks. On the 17th, also, Lieutenant-d via Buckeyestown to rejoin their brigades. Ours, under command of General Abercrombie, we were informed, was then at Hyattstown, where the army would be for the present. Colonel Thomas's brigade would reach Hyattstown probably to-morrow (the 21sHyattstown probably to-morrow (the 21st), the order said. It then continued: The General wishes this movement to take place as soon as it possibly can be effected. Before leaving, he wishes you to bring off, if you can in a short time, and if not to destroy, the wheat and mill-stones i-fields rejoiced in gigantic stalks. On the 23d we encamped at the foot of a steep hill, in the flourishing village of Hyattstown. We had made twenty-one miles in three days. From hill-top to valley, all around us the ground was dotted with whitero