THE MAKING OF THE MUSTER.
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The Lancaster and Middlesex family of Virginian Gordons, showing 20 Fighting Men,
The most distinguished individual officer is General John Brown
Gordon (1832-1904), the dignified Confederate leader, who was wounded
no fewer than eight times during the war, and whose book of reminis-
cences stands head and shoulders above the average military auto-
biography either in America or in our own country. He belonged to a
notable military group of Confederate officers, the Gordons of Spottsyl-
vania, Virginia, and claimed descent from John George Gordon, who
emigrated from Scotland to Maryland in 1724 and therefrom to Spottsyl-
vania County. The fact that a grandson was named James Byron
Gordon is responsible for the suggestion that the family was connected
with the Gordons of Gight, but no proof is forthcoming. The
Spottsylvania Gordons produced the following soldiers: —