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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 3: through Harper's Ferry to Winchester—The Valley of the Shenandoah. (search)
that officer did not appreciate the value of time in its relation to national finances, and to a democratic form of Government; also that further delay involved national despondency, a tax levied upon the people for an immense debt which had borne no fruit in victories, distrust, a great fall in national stocks, and a possible if not probable foreign intervention. The President's Order No. 1, issued against McClellan's protest, peremptorily commanded an advance at all points on the twenty-third of February. McClellan was placed at the head of the Army of the Potomac, and soon ceased to be commander-in-chief of the armies of the United States. It was very early in the morning of the twenty-seventh of February, 1862, when I marched with my regiment through the streets of Frederick, in Maryland, to take the cars for Harper's Ferry. As the band aroused the town, young ladies, hurriedly dressed, waved handkerchiefs from windows and, in some cases with tears ill repressed, uttered a tr