By the Shenandoah about six miles from Harrisonburg.
Yesterday Lieutenant Mathesius again came to our regiment since he could find no nursing care in Harrisonburg. Early about four o'clock thick fog and continuous rain. Marching order for seven o'clock. We are drinking coffee.
Six-thirty o'clock bouillon and beef.
I have a little diarrhea. (Slept in a hut of leaves with my buffalohide.) Had ration of crackers.
Eight o'clock RETURN MARCH. On our way we pass the battlefield. Twenty to thirty from bomb etc. fragment killed horses show how, on one spot alone the enemy has suffered. Here apparently was the position of the artillery, the situation of the occupied terrain was excellent. We see the church in which the hospital was located. The enemy while retreating on the Shenandoah was stopped by General Shield whose troops came from above the river. However Shield was pushed back but had time to burn the bridge. Now Jackson supposedly moved towards north to try a different crossing, consequently our movement.
Noon: We are in the place where our first line was formed and hospital is located. Orders are given to eight men to carry Lieutenant Grahaan to Harrisonburg about six miles since he cannot be transported by ambulance, too badly wounded. It has been raining all day. The roads are so bad cannons and wagons can hardly get through.
We arrive at our camp in Harrisonburg quite tired and soaked through, get cleaned up and dry, drink coffee and go to sleep at one-thirty o'clock.
We buy three dozen biscuits for fifty cents a dozen.
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