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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)
n's plans, Williams's division of the Fifth Corps was ordered to proceed, via Berryville, through Snicker's Gap to Centreville, while Shields, with his division of about six thousand men, was to remain at Winchester. Williams's division of three brigades moved very early in the morning of the 22d for its destination. At night my brigade encamped at Berryville, and the next night at Snicker's Gap. Ignorant of the events transpiring in the rear, I was awakened on the morning of the twenty-fourth of March by despatches coming thick and fast, calling me back to Winchester. We have heard cannon at intervals, hear them now, wrote Major Crane, of the Third Wisconsin, at halfpast six of the day before; and so, as I read the orders sent me at ten minutes past six P. M. from General Williams to return at once to Berryville, I exclaimed, There are Major Crane's cannon. Push on to Winchester, continued the orders, if on your arrival at Berryville you hear the sound of large guns, giving an