Mount Jackson.
Beautiful weather. Day of rest.
Lieutenant Hofferberth with fifteen men are ordered to fatigue guard into hospital, however return to us. Errath for extra duty in medical department. The heat is terrific, more so in our rubber blanket covered huts.
Towards evening Kuntze from the mounted rifles pays me a visit. The mounted rifles are the only regiment cavalry of the first Stahl Brigade and have, from the beginning in Hunters Chapel, had a never ending hard duty. They were sharp in battle by Mount Jackson at the same time with the Bucktail Sharpshooters in which General Ashberg was killed, likewise in the battle of Union Church, by Harrisonburg. Kuntze also was on Patrol Duty on the battlefield the following day to look for dead and wounded. Likewise by the burial where some thirty at one time were put into a large grave. When he left Harrisonburg yesterday, as cover for the wounded in ambulances, enemy cavalry immediately occupied the city again, so that they last few riders had difficulty to escape. Our very badly wounded were left to the enemy.
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