Report of the appointment of General M. Fremont to Military Governor of Virginia and General M. Sigel's appointment as Chief of the Mounted Army.
Noon: Beef with soup and rice.
Wehrle, cook from Company C relinquishes his official duties because Mersartoris insulted him. Lieutenant Dros decides that according to regulations the kitchen must be staffed by members of Company C and changed every ten days.
Gaier, Company C, returns from hospital Romney.
Afternoon: Five o'clock Company B-C-D-E-F are ordered on picket duty. Thunder storm with rain. At four o'clock all officers, non commissioned officers and four privated from every company are going to acting General Amsberg to bring him greetings and congratulations to his birthday.
I meet Schoenecker there who, as wine merchant, has his tent close by.
At five o'clock picket. I arrive at the very outpost, stretching about two miles north west, with three sergeants, corporal, eighteen privated and Brevet Lieutenant Koblanz* the men from Company F. We are in contact with the right wingspread of General Schenk and communicate at half hour intervals.
Countersign Beauford.
*May be Keblanz? Difficult to make out in copy.
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