George H. Gordon - secures Rebel wheat, disables mill (LOC - LC-DIG-cwpb-05794)
From The New-York Times August 25, 1861:
IMPORTANT FROM BALTIMORE.; CAPTURE OF LARGE QUANTITIES OF FLOUR AND WHEAT.
BALTIMORE, Friday. Aug. 24.
The agent of the Associated Press. with, the Army, sends the following from Hyattstown:
Gentlemen from Harper’s Ferry state that our troops, under Col. GORDON, have secured large quantities of flour and unground wheat, including five hundred bushels belonging to the secession Army, at a mill owned by HERR A. WELSCH. They also disabled the mill from grinding for several months to come. There were no rebel troops at the Ferry, but their pickets frequently come in. There were supposed to be about five hundred rebel troops at Charlestown. Our Army is now resting, where the climate is salubrious, and the water excellent. Intelligence from the other side of the Potomac shows that the rebels have drawn to Leesburgh all their regular forces from Charlestown, Winchester and other points above, and concentrated them at Leesburgh, where their Army numbers from 11,000 to 12,000 men. Capt. HENDERSON’s Home Guard alone remains in Jefferson County. The rebels have taken to pieces at Martinsburgh five locomotives belonging to the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, and were to make the attempt yesterday to transport them to Strasburgh, or some other point on the Manassas road.
Having graduated from west Point in 1846, George Henry Gordon “served under Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott in the Mexican-American War, earning the brevet of first lieutenant for gallantry at Cerro Gordo.” When the Civil War began Gordon organized and led the 2nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.
Headed for Mexico - George H. Gordon c1846
Concentrating: Rebels near Leesburg, 1861 (LOC - LC-USZ62-56940)
