Romney
Six o'clock in the morning inspection or rather review by the Adjutant of General Fremont. (A German). The remaining three Regiments of the First Brigade are marching immediately after the inspection. We march at one o'clock.
Before we left all the sick were sent to Romney in order to be transported to the Cumberland Hospital. From our Company: Captain Hoefer and his servant Nickolaus, Private Scheidt, Gaynor, Sorg and Feierabend. Consequently I have the Company Command. In Winchester we left behind: Weber, Jakob, Braun, Meyer (Ruf). Aside from that on this day "Friedrich", with the consent of our chief is leaving us to enter another Regiment. Heintz and Katinowsky apparently have deserted by Winchester. Ordered to the wagons by the First Bivouac behind Winchester are: Fitzke, Bruck and Bluehnel. The weather is beautiful and we are marching very well, eleven miles to Paterson, a village of about eight houses.
Behind Romney is a ferry boat crossing the southern branch of the Potomac. About one and one half company transported at one time. Our wagons are riding through the water. One of them gets stuck in a hole and two mules drown. Shortly before that a Paymaster almost had an accident. The first Company from the Forty-fifth Ohio is supposedly camping in Moorefield.
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