Posted on 11/20/2022 6:10:44 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
GAINESVILLE, Saturday, Nov. 15, 1862.
At the date of this letter it will be seen that Gen. SIGEL's headquarters are still at this place, and not further South, as many loyal people north of this hope and believe. No person connected with the Eleventh Army Corps is responsible for this; that burden rests entirely upon persons remote from the command, and who doubtless have reasons of their own -- whether sufficient or not -- for it. Indeed, It was expected by all here that we should have continued in the advance and enter Warrenton -- a place which for weeks before its final reoccupation was at the mercy of the commanding officer had he been permitted to act; but the powers at Washington, for some good purpose, it is best to assume, decreed it otherwise, and while the advance of this corps was within sight of Warrenton -- where it had been for several days -- another was directed to take the position. By some the movement was looked upon as peculiarly strategic, while others, admitting it to be strategy, at the same time believe that the strategy displayed has the ear-marks of diplomacy. Be this as it may, I do not propose to unravel the red tape and let the facts within drop out of their inclosure at this time, but record it as one of the mysterious events of the war. While brooding over this, a gleam of hope shines upon us from Washington. Madame Rumor says the Eleventh Army Corps will advance in some direction at an early day; the direction will depend doubtless upon a variety of circumstances -- chiefly pertaining to the movements of JACKSON. It is quite certain that the rebels have a very respectable force in the Shenandoah Valley,
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Do you know if this was Gainesville, Florida, or Gainesville, Georgia? Or maybe somewhere else altogether?
That’s what caught my eye…
Gainesville VA. Just west of the Manassas battlefield
Thank you. I saw Leesburgh mentioned, too. There’s a Leesburg south of Gainesville, FL near Orlando. I don’t know my Civil War history as well as I should, but when I was a kid, I was working in our rather large garden, and at one point found a Confederate button there. I kept it for a long time.
Any time something or someone mentions Gainesville or Gators or Florida, it catches my eye. ;)
Same. There’s more than a handful of us here.
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