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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 6: battle of Winchester (continued)—Federal retreat across the Potomac to Williamsport. (search)
all that Nature offered, man had added his touch to stamp forever the scene upon my mind. There, just below us, in good rifle-range, preceded by swarms of skirmishers, regiment after regiment of the enemy were moving in good order steadily but rapidly up the hill. This was Taylor's brigade, numbering four thousand men (about five hundred more than the whole of Banks's army), as appears from the following letter to me from General George L. Andrews, my former Lieutenant-Colonel:-- West Point, N. Y., June 14, 1875. Dear General, After the surrender at Meridian, on the borders of Alabama and Mississippi, where I went to receive the parole of General Taylor's army, I had a conversation with the latter about the Winchester fight. In the course of it, I said that if we could have opposed his whole brigade with a battery, and reserved the infantry fire longer, I thought we might have checked him. He replied in substance that no doubt we should have hurt them a good deal, but he