Fairfax C - H Virginia
Fairfax - Centerville
Cold weather. Slight Northwind.
I am writing a letter to my wife, will enclose portrait from Ansberg. I am also writing to my sister and Col. O. (not finished)
Ten o'clock instruction in trumpet signal.
Afternoon: Three o'clock General March and Departure. Marching to Centerville. The roads were beautiful and dry. Direction West: Three to four times the roads were flooded from the rain. All of us wade through awkwardly. Nobody thinks to make a passage from large rocks or logs, fences etc.
The entire Division is marching.
Artillery and Cavalry. Arrival in Centerville at Seven Thirty o'clock. Strong entrenchments, barracks, blockhouses, fireplaces, chimneys, on the outside. Everybody finds his own quarters for the night. Hoefer, I and about ten men from our Company, settle in a blockhouse, and sleep excellently until about six o'clock in the morning. Eight Illinois Cavalry and other Regiments were encamped here for some time.
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