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Hello. I was first in my class at West Point.
I was the army's civil engineer who was supervising construction of the new dome on the U.S. Capitol in Washington when the war erupted.
During the Confederate invasion, General McClellan assigned me the duty of paralleling the Potomac River as the army advanced from
Washington, and it was my job to guard against more Rebel crossings into Maryland.
Since my command was nearest Harpers Ferry, General McClellan ordered me to break the Confederate stanglehold and enable the
garrison to escape. I broke the Rebel lines at Crampton's Gap at South Mountain en route to Harpers Ferry, but was blockaded
in Pleasant Valley and could not reach the garrison.
Do you know me?
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