Harrisonburg - New Market
Morning: Seven-thirty o'clock departure from Harrisonburg.
Wehrle took over the kitchen this morning.
We are marching slowly with interval breaks.
Karl Schurz is here accompanied by General Fremont. By the departure from Harrisonburg the latter supposedly declared that in the event of as much as a hair of one of the wounded was bent, the entire city would be leveled to the ground. (From the courthouse in Harrisonburg a writing pen as weathervane.)
Evening: About seven o'clock arrival in New Market. During the day very pleasant weather and the best of roads. Bivouac by New Market.
For the evening coffee. During the night beef is being cooked likewise coffee.
I lost my little company roll book in the morning, had it returned by the finder in the evening. Lieutenant Hofferberth and I take a canteen full of redwine from Horstmann $3.00 on bill by Hofferberth. Lieutenants Streck and Basson with thirty men from Company E who had the watch over a transport of prisoners of about five hundred men, have returned to us. They had to endure a lot since they were almost completely out of all rations. The little they had they gave the dissatisfied prisoners and in order to eat had to buy from farmers for cash.
The were robbed by the prisoners and they were so full of lice that our officers were compelled to buy new clothes for themselves.
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