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tin- v ^d of March. Thi- was a lonely camp, the only redeeming ti.iiun of which was .in abundant supply of wood. On the 28th February wr had here a mustering, and made out a pay-roll on which is recorded tin- lad that between December 31, 1861, and that day, the company had marched about one hundred and thirty miles. The public property then (28th February) consisted of two ten- pounder parrot guns (ritU-d), one twelve-pounder Howitzer, three six-pounder brass field pieces, and two eight-pounder Tredegar iron rifles, a travelling-forge, wagons, &c., and one hundred and six horses.

Whilst we were at this camp the following additional men joined the company:

February gth J. Campbell Heiskell.

March ist Alexander R. Boteler, Jr., and Davenport D. Ma- gruder.

The pay-roll made there notes the following changes, to-wit: Nich- olas H. Lewis, discharged November i6th, by order of General Winder, and Samuel A. Wilson, discharged February 10, 1862, by- order of General Garnett.

On March 3, 1862, the company left their winter quarters at Zolli- coffer, and encamped about a mile north of Winchester, near the Fair-grounds. Here we were joined by the following new men:

March 3d Calvin M. Dold, Joseph McAlpine, Thomas E. Mc- Corkle, Ed. A. Moore, Robert A. Pleasants, Benjamin R. Swisher, George W. Swisher, Thomas H. Tidball, Samuel A. Wilson.

March 6th George A. Ginger, William L. Ginger, Oscar M. Marshall, George W. Fugh.

March jth Robert T. Barton, J. Harvey Gilmore, George H. Nicely, Samuel W. Paxton, Thomas M. Wade.

March roth William H. Boiling, Hugh H. McGuire, Jr., Wil- liam Wiseman.

On the loth, the battery left this camp and retired in the direction of New Market, in Shenandoah county, and on the nth, while on the march, it was joined by John M. Brown (a cousin of Sergeant Brown) and John A. Holmes.

We went into a camp which was called Camp Buchanan, near New Market, about the I3th of March, and here we were joined on the iyth by James K. Hitner, Charles S. Phillips, Charles Gay, Charles E. Young, and M. Erskine Gay; and on the 2ist by Francis

J. Crocker and Gray, who was killed a few days afterwards at

Kernstown.

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