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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 7: the Army of Virginia under General Pope—Battle of Cedar Mountain. (search)
r hatred, which might have pleased the Administration, but found little favor with us. I think General Pope's freedom of speech infected his command with a general mania for discussing men and measures. It was not an uncommon event for generals and colonels to meet at my tent, and express their views in words stronger than those generally used in war councils,--cuss words of such vigor, when they fell from the lips of our division commander, that all were appalled into silence, save Colonel Knipe of the Forty-sixth Pennsylvania; and when he began, Williams was silent. Ordinary words being totally inadequate to express one's feelings, swearing became an epidemic. On the sixth of August the Army of Virginia began its march for Culpeper Court House. General Pope's main purpose in thus moving forward was not to fight. His instructions required him to be very careful not to allow the enemy to interpose between himself and Fredericksburg, to which point the forces from the Peninsu
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 8: battle of Cedar Mountain (continued). (search)
et my eyes. The slaughter had indeed been fearful. Though the Forty-sixth New York, the Fifth Connecticut, and part of the Forty-sixth Pennsylvania had reached a battery upon which they had charged, they had been compelled to fall back, leaving many of their number on the field. In the Twenty-eighth New York, Colonel Donelly was borne mortally wounded from the field; Lieutenant-Colonel Brown's arm was shattered; Major Cook was wounded, and a prisoner. In the Forty-sixth Pennsylvania, Colonel Knipe was twice wounded, and was carried from the field; Lieutenant-Colonel Selfridge's horse was shot under him; Major Mathews fell, dangerously wounded: of its twenty company-officers who went into action, 17 were killed, wounded, or missing, and 226 of its rank and file. In the Fifth Connecticut, Colonel Chapman, Lieutenant-Colonel Stone, and Major Blake were missing, supposed to have been killed. In the Third Wisconsin, Lieutenant-Colonel Crane was killed, pierced with several fatal wou