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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 34 2 Browse Search
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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 1: from Massachusetts to Virginia. (search)
rty poured out with unstinting hand, by both rank and file, to aid me in my effort to organize my regiment. Men, money, sympathy, influence I — it seemed as if all the wealth, all the precious life-blood, all that nearly a hundred years of social and intellectual development had garnered, were offered for the sacrifice. I much regret that I have no reliable record of the order in which applications for commissions were received; but by the best evidence I have, the first applicant, Greely S. Curtis, was followed by A. B. Underwood. Then came Wilder Dwight, and within a few days George L. Andrews, who made personal application for the office of lieutenantcolonel. The following names, with residences, I find among my notes, upon a sheet bearing evidence that they were written in the order in which I received the application. I copy them precisely as they were written in the spring of 1861: William B. Williams, Quarter-Master-Sergeant, .Cadets. Dr. Luther Parks, Surgeon
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)
hould control my wishes to have that gentleman in mine. This had been urged by the Governor against my nomination of Mr. Mason. I further pointed out to the Governor, that he had commissioned citizens whom I had nominated in the places of Captains Curtis, Whitney, and Lieutenant Higginson. Astonished therefore at the enunciation of a new policy now, I added: It is your Excellency's duty to commission officers for my regiment; it is mine to test them. Each act is independent of the will of lar manner. This ended the controversy, and for us most happily. Since leaving Massachusetts there had been eight resignations of officers in our regiment,--resignations, almost without exception, to take a higher rank elsewhere. We had lost Curtis and Higginson and others, and we had received as second lieutenants, to fill vacancies, Shelton and Fox, and Crowninshield, Oakey, and Scott. I repeat, the controversy closed for us most happily; for it gave the regiment, as one of Governor Andr
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Index (search)
ry under Stonewall Jackson, 199, 235. Crane, Major, 121. Killed at Cedar Mountain, 305. Crawford, S. W., Brigadier-general under Banks, 226, 258, 281-283, 289, 291, 294. In the battle of Cedar Mountain, 305. What his orders from Pope were, and their bearing on the question of Banks's responsibility, 351. Crosby, Lieutenant, 230. Crowninshield, Lieutenant, wounded at the battle of Winchester, 241 (note.) Currency, Federal and Confederate, comparative value of, 166, 167. Curtis, Greely S., first to apply for a commission in the Second Mass. Regiment, 4; holds a captaincy in same, 13. D Dabney, Southern historian and eulogist of Stonewall Jackson,--extracts from his Life of General Jackson, 180, 185, 198, 200, 209, 210, 212-214, 217, 219-221, 223, 227, 228, 231-233, 235, 237, 240, 242, 244, 295-297, 329, 333. Devens, Charles, Colonel of the Fifteenth Mass. Regiment, 65. Is engaged in the Battle of Ball's Bluff, 66-78; and escapes capture by swimming, 78.