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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)
the conviction that he was acting the r6le of a general in command, for under date of the thirty-first of December I find a note from him, addressing me from headquarters, Frederick, Maryland, as My dear sir, and continuing, If not any interference with arrangements for your regiment to-morrow, I should esteem it a favor if you would allow your band to visit my headquarters for a couple of hours, say from eleven to one o'clock; for their trouble I will gladly satisfy them. On the sixteenth of February we were anxiously awaiting news from Fort Donelson. Our line of attack against the Rebellion extended from west to east, almost on a single parallel of latitude. Tennessee had been entered; our gunboats had penetrated its rivers even. to the northern borders of Alabama; Bowling Green must be evacuated; Columbus can give no aid to Fort Donelson, for the latter is invested; Burnside's expedition threatens lines of communication from Manassas. To aid these movements, which wonderful