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Chapter
2
:
Harper's Ferry
and
Maryland Heights
—Darnstown,
Maryland
.--
Muddy Branch
and
Seneca Creek
on the
Potomac
—Winter quarters at
Frederick, Md.
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in line with it. “Why don't you order your men to fire?”
I shouted.
“Don't see anything'to fire at,” was the cool response.
“Move by the right flank and join on with the Twenty-seventh, and you will soon find enough to fire at,” I replied.
The regiment was moved where the field was a little more exposed to Colonel Andrews' vision, and I heard no further complaint that he could not find “anything to fire at.”
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