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Whilst In ii. \\e indulged in " routing ean and fresh potatoes, purchased tnun neighboring tanners, and one of the boys, who was ^aid tn have e.iten a do/en iar> o! corn for his dinner one day, had a >|)dl of typhoid lever. We had our " bunks" in the woods at first, but the surgeon required us to pitch our tents in the cleared land, and t<> >leep in them. This was, in many respects, a delightful camping-place, though we had to march about a mile every day sometimes twice a day to find level ground suitable for the battery- drills. Many friends from our homes called on us at this camp, and here we received frequent boxes and barrels of "provisions," and even supplies of books!

We had the following additions to our company after the First Battle of Manassas:

July 23d John M. Brown, John L. Brown, Alexander Conner, William H. Cox, Henry T. Darnall, William H. H. Dixon, William Carson, E. Boyd Faulkner, John Fuller, Alfred Gold, John F. Hall, James Rutherford Houston, John H. Leckey, James P. Lewis, John E. McCauley, William A. McCorkle, John L. Moore, John F. Nicely, Henry R. Paine, George W. Reintzell, John Saville, Joseph F. Shaner, James W. Tomlinson, Robert Van Pelt, Andrew J. Vest, John Wilson, George A. Walker, James S. Walker, John W. Walker.

July 25th Robert K. Compton.

July 27th C. N. B. Minor, Kinloch Nelson (transferred from the Albemarle Light Horse, which he had joined May u, 1861.) and Phil Nelson.

July 29th Jonathan Agner and John T. Agner.

August 8th Algernon S. Whitt.

August loth Randolph Fairfax, William W. Houston.

August 1 2th William M. Wilson.

August 14 John T. Gibson.

August 1 5th William H. Byrd, Lucas P. Thompson.

23d G. Newton Byers.

25th Robert B. Winston.

September ist Abner E. Arnold.

September 2d Edgar G. Alexandria (transferred from Captain Sheetz' company), L. M. Blackford, J. Howard Smith, Summer- field Smith.

jth John M. Gregory, Jr.

loth Charles O. Veers.