Middletown - Front Royal.
Morning: Seven o'clock departure.
I give the first three letters to be mailed to Piers.
We do not march through Winchester but take the eastern sidestreet of Middletown.
Chimber is leaving the regiment to go to New York.
During our march terrific heat. The men who were marching in the morning can by noon scarcely move. During our march General Schenk is more than horrified over the lack of discipline in the brigade. Confusion and loud unwillingness even against Lieutenant Colonel Chief Wratislaw. -
Ten o'clock arrival in Front Royal.
Halt in southern direction of city.
Since no specific halting place was designated the regiment gets lost into the bush and are summoned in vain to line up again. After a rest of one hour the regiment or rather the fragments of same march about another two miles to the halting place on a hill in the forest. About seven men from every company arrive.
One man from the twenty-seventh regiment reportedly died from sunstroke. Also General Schenk, who drove the men very hard, became ill.
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