. Vermont in the Civil War (Volume 1): a history of the part taken by the Vermont soldiers and sailors in the war for the Union, 1861-5 . he graduated in 1811, in the class of which DonCarlos Buell, John F Reynolds, and other prominent generalofficers, were members. He had seen active service in theM exican war, and on the frontier, and had established as a brave, experienced and capable soldier Aswas the case with most officers of the regular army at thattime, he had little sympathy with the anti-slavery sentimentwhich animated the soldiers and people of Vermont and saveno Avel
. Vermont in the Civil War (Volume 1): a history of the part taken by the Vermont soldiers and sailors in the war for the Union, 1861-5 . he graduated in 1811, in the class of which DonCarlos Buell, John F Reynolds, and other prominent generalofficers, were members. He had seen active service in theM exican war, and on the frontier, and had established as a brave, experienced and capable soldier Aswas the case with most officers of the regular army at thattime, he had little sympathy with the anti-slavery sentimentwhich animated the soldiers and people of Vermont and saveno Avelcome to an abolition war ; but he proposed to dohis duty to the government and to the flag he had sworn toserve ; and if the brigade which he commanded for a year anda half had a noteworthy share in the overthrow of the Rebellion, it was due in large part to the thorough traiuino- anfisoldierly example of its first brigade commander. GeneralBrooks was in his forty-second year, tall and erect of ficmrounostentatious and soldierly in bearing, and from the first 1 First, that is, in order. The brigades were not then formally *vj Jq JW* ^.S/T&t^- o THE FIRST BRIGADE. 237 made a favorable impression on his command, whichstrengthened with time and better knowledge. Camp Griffin, the camp of the brigade for five months,and for a longer period than was spent by it in any other spot,always had a distinct place in the memory of the Vermonterswho there saw their first campaigning. It was in a fine roll-ing country, of varied open fields and magnificent woodlands,many acres of which fell under the axes of the Vermont knolls around had been dotted with mansions, many ofwhich were already in ruins under the ruthless touch of soil was the red Virginia clay, so unlike that of NewEngland. The camp was on the road from Chain Bridge toLewinsville, a mile and a half from the latter hamlet, andon and around Smoots Hill, from the top of which the campsof most of
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