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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)
er. For two or three days we extended our guards along the Potomac, and once we marched to Edward's Ferry and crossed the river into Virginia, only to turn round, recross, and march back again. We suffered now from over-caution,--a penalty for the want of it. Our troops were again all on the Maryland side of the Potomac. General McClellan had visited us and departed. On the twenty-sixth of October, at nine o'clock A. M., my regiment turned its face again towards Darnstown, and on the 27th, after two days of marching, away back in some Maryland farmer's field, skirted by wood on the north and east, out of sight of the highway and in sight of the Potomac, we made our encampment: we were about four miles from our old camp. Here the days were a constant repetition of drum-beat and drill, orders from headquarters, picket duty, cold weather, rain, hurricane, smoky tents, old newspapers, military tribulations, vague hopes, and more vague instruction by a topographical engineer offic