March to Strassburg.
Morning: Five-thirty o'clock departure.
Beautiful weather, cloudy sky, excellent road. The country side is just like a park. We are marching light and pleasant for ten miles.
Eleven o'clock halt on a meadow.
Kistner catches a live rattlesnake about four feet long with eleven rattlers. He ties same behind the head on a stick.
Thunder storm with heavy rain.
Marching again about one o'clock until seven o'clock in the evening altogether twenty miles to Wardenville. Rain on and off.
Report of new public notice from the president for more troops.
Sergeant Mueller under arrest through Lieutenant Cyermely for removing of boards. During the night about twelve o'clock orders for marching readiness at three o'clock in the morning. Meat for the following day was supposed to have been butchered, but it was old live stock that the Brigade was sent from the Quartermaster Office, it was refused. Consequently no meat today.
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