Woodsmill Bivouac by Winchester
The weather is clearing up. We receive at noon bacon and rice, otherwise we are still biding our time, waiting, without clothing, shoes, soap, etc.
No Quartermaster makes his appearance.
It is said that General Rosencranz returned to Washington to procure for us the badly needed necessities. The bridge by Harpers Ferry was supposedly, with all the rain we have had, washed out, consequently this has encroached upon the transportation.
Towards noon Officers Call.
After roll call was held, we find a considerable part of the men from Company C missing. Eight men. A safeguard from the Blenker Regiment supposedly was threatened with violence by a party of soldiers namely from Company C Forty-fifth. In the afternoon, I with Sergeant Messmann and two other men, undertake a patrol to look for the missing men. We arrive at the Mill where a pair from Blenkers Regiment, in customary manner, are playing Safeguard, which means to loaf about and let themselves be fed by the farmers. We find one of them in the yard lying on his belly sound asleep. The Guards are not even carrying Bayonet Sidearms. We find the same conditions on two or three other farms. We also find our men as Volunteer Safeguards on a distant farm, however, on duty.
They receive for punishment Watch Duty.
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