and vicinity should be
productive in results.

CHAPTER V.

ADVANCE INTO VIRGINIA, AND BATTLE OF BULL RUN.

On the morning of July 16th, came the order to move. F Company
mounted guard, that morning, in marching order, with forty rounds of
ammunition in our boxes, three days' rations in our haversacks, and
blankets strapped on our backs. Both regiments formed on the parade
ground at 10 A. M. Our company was relieved from guard and took its
position in line, with the colors.

Both regiments marched into Washington, the battery of the 2d
Regiment accompanying us. The camp was left in charge of about sixty
men of the regiment, who had been on the sick roll, but had so far
recovered as to be in condition for camp duty. Corporal Nicolai and
Private Terrell, of our company, had been on the sick roll, but
insisted on taking their place in the ranks, and marched into the
city, but were obliged to return to camp the same night, not being
sufficiently strong to endure the march.

Arrived in the city, we halted on Pennsylvania Avenue, waiting for
the other regiments of our brigade, comprising, besides our own and
the 2d, the 7th New York and 2d New Hampshire and 2d Rhode Island
Light Battery, to join us, the whole comprising the Second Brigade,
Second Division, commanded by General Hunter. It was late in the
afternoon before we were ordered to move. All day troops had been
crossing Long Bridge, and we had to wait until the whole of the First
Division of infantry, artillery and cavalry had crossed. The army
consisted of about forty-four thousand men, commanded by General
McDowell; there was also attached to the column a battalion of United
States Marines.

Our brigade crossed Long Bridge at about 4 P. M., and marched with
our entire Division as far as Anandale, where we bivouacked for the
night in the fields beside the road. Soon after halting, the boys
began to think about supper, and little fires were kindled, coffee
made, in our tin cups, and it is my opinion that the greater part of
the three days' rations issued to us that morning were consumed that
night. After supper, rolling our blankets about us, we lay down on
the ground and enjoyed a good night's rest, notwithstanding that
quite a shower of rain fell during the night.

We were on the road again soon after daylight the next morning.
Hunter's Division, to which we were attached, marched on the direct
road to Fairfax Court House. Soon after leaving Anandal