Departure Cedar Run - Warrington Junction, Farquier County, Virginia
In the morning gorgeous spring weather. Eight o'clock in the morning, March. The German Division as AdvantGuard. We hope to meet the Enemy. Nachtmann and Keller arrive (Lieutenant Pollack etc.) Corporal Feuerbacher Company C is supposed to have deserted from Hunters Chapel.
We march for two hours and stop on a hill close by a village and pass Review before Generals Sumner and Blenker. Garibaldi as skirmishers are searching for the Enemy. Artillery follows. The main Corps arrives and stays with us on the hill.
Unhindered march until for o'clock. Nice roads, beautiful farms. Twice we have to wade through a brook two to three feet deep.
At four o'clock we find the still glowing watchfires of the Rebels. Long tracts of the Railroad destroyed. Telegraph wires, rails by the dozens, put onto the fires and bend through the heat. Open place surrounded by forest.
Enemy Cavalry in sight.
Garibaldi as skirmishers.
Formation for Battle Array.
Three Cannon charges towards the forest.
The riders are disappearing.
March in fork formation near the railroad. Through the forest and fields, sometimes on roads grenaded. Hereupon bivouac.
From time to time cannon charges.
RATIONS MISSING Chickens, Oxen, Geese, etc.
Weather beautiful. Pleasant night.
Camp in valley (basin)
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