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priety in ranks, so that Ford escaped punishment, except what Hos- tetter's musket had inflicted.

On the ist of May, David E. Moore, Jr., joined the battery ; on the 3d, Lawson W. Johnson ; on the 5th, Richard G. Davis ; on 6th, Samuel B. Anderson, Ferdinand Hetterich, Thomas Martin, and Benjamin F. Tharp ; on 7th, John R. Beard ; and on the nth, George W. Conner.

On the nth of May the company was on the march to Staunton, and on that day William G. Crosen joined it at Steel's Tavern. The same day it was mustered into the Confederate States service at Staunton, Va., by Major M. G. Harman.

The first members of the company may remember, and be able to tell, the route taken from Staunton. I can find only this authenti- cated account of their movements from Staunton till they were again mustered at Camp Stevens, north of Martinsburg, Va. From Staunton, the place of the last mustering, the company travelled mainly by the railroad, some 230 miles. It has since marched many miles as part of the Army of the Shenandoah. Their route was probably this: By railroads From Staunton by what was then the Virginia Central, to Gordonsville; thence by the Orange and Alex- andria, to Manassas Junction; thence by the Manassas Gap road to Strasburg, in the northern edge of Shenandoah county; thence, leav- ing the railroad, by the Valley pike to Winchester, Va. ; thence by railroad again from Winchester to Harper's Ferry. After two or three weeks spent in and about Harper's Ferry, June i5th it marched back towards Winchester, but turned off to Bunker Hill, where the army was reorganized, and was assigned to the First Brigade, Gene- ral T. J. Jackson's, and returned to Winchester; thence down the Valley pike, northward till they reached Camp Stevens, a beautiful camp in the corner of an oak forest, on the east side of the Valley pike, which extended from Staunton, Va., to the Potomac river opposite Williamsport, Md. This camp was about four miles north of Martinsburg, and was reached 2ist June.

Whilst the battery was at Harper's Ferry, one section of it, com- manded by Captain Pendleton and Lieutenant McLaughlin, was sent to the Potomac, opposite Williamsport, Md., where the Federals were expected to cross the river. This section after a few days re- turned to Harper's Ferry and rejoined the rest of the company.

During the time from the mustering at Staunton (say nth May) to that of the mustering at Camp Stevens, the following members joined the company : May i5th, John Livingston Massie; on iyth,