Battle by Harrisonburg.
The lovely cool weather of yesterday remains pleasant today.
Rations: Only fresh meat, little less beans.
One barrel of crackers for the regiment. Coffee and sugar.
Departure about eight o'clock after the enjoyment of beef, bouillon and crackers.
In front of us the entire first and second brigade. On our way, as we are passing the battlefield of yesterday and the forest, we still find our dead and also two from the enemy who were fatally injured with bomb fragments. The enemy apparently continued with his retreat during the night.
Our regiments are marching under artillery cover in division colonnades slowly ahead.
Distant cannon thunder.
Our dead have been most of the time completely plundered by the enemy, shoes even the metal buttons from their uniforms. It is said that during our march more than two hundred Rebel dead were found.
Direction south towards the Shenandoah on which opposite shores General Shield with about eight thousand men are camping. They engaged the enemy early this morning but supposedly were thrown back.
Three-forty-five o'clock renewed cannonade but of short duration. We are a few gun shots from the shore of the river and we are told that same is not so wide. The entire division bivouacs in a small oakforest very close to one another.
On the opposite shores are the mountain ranges of the Blue Ridge in which Shields and Jackson next to each other are camping in the forests. The Rebels under the flag of truce are burying their dead and attend their wounded.
It is said that they suffered terribly under yesterday's cannonade.
Evening: Seven o'clock the cannonade from our side is being renewed.
Suddenly Alarm.
We are to cross the river during the night. At that precise moment I receive a letter from H. Lindenberg. We remain on this side of the river for the night and sleep without being disturbed.
The Rebels very carefully took their wounded with them yesterday even provided first aid for a great number of ours and put them up in a farmhouse where they were found by us today and taken care of.
Merkel Company E again comes to us since he found no nursing care in Mount Jackson.
Full rations: Crackers, meat, coffee, sugar no rice.
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