Centerville - Manassas.
Centerville.
Morning: Seven o'clock Marching readiness to Manassas. All the other Regiments from our and other Divisions are already marching. NO RATIONS. Beautiful weather, although rather cold in the morning.
On the way a distance of about three hours, we find many uninhabitied camps of the Secessionists excellently arranged. Blockhouses, all kinds of abandoned partly destroyed objects. Transport wagons in the mud, horses perished on the way, and others by the departing Secessionists killed by the dozens left at the abandoned camps. We have counted over one hundred.
About three o'clock stop at ...... Junction. Sumner and Blenker Division Bivouac. First Lieutenant Kallenberg, Company K, Siegels Rifles 52nd Regiment N.Y.V. from the (Berlin Craftsmen Guild) visits me and brings me something to eat since our rations are missing. Same arrive not until night and in the morning of the 26th of March.
Manassas Junction. Our Military forces the 52nd, 66th, etc. before us, have found in the camps of the Secessionists the best of provisions and lived on them for eight days. Barrels of tongue, flour, meat, etc. Our people too are getting some of it.
As i wanted to visit Kallenbach at six thirty o'clock in the evening I find that those Regiments are already marching, We bivouac in open air, sleep excellently.
Nachtmann is still in Fairfax with our things. Lieutenant Bahson gives me for a present a small dagger, a former possession of Hasthausen the deserter from Anandale Outpost. Bahson buys a beautiful steel sabre scabbard for fifity cents, same was found by a soldier. The Regiments before us also found corpses of five Secessionist soldiers unburied. Suspicion of murder.
Hospital burned down, among others one German: Cornelius Wagner. The camps, part blockhouses part tents, left undisturbed in unprepared flight.
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