its number over four hours. During the time the struggle was desperate on both sides. The battle of Cedar mountain, seven miles from Culpepper Courthouse, on August 9th, the Union army under Banks, the rebels under Longstreet, the Twenty-ninth was engaged in the open field without cover, and sustained considerable loss. Then followed the retrograde move to Culpepper; the campaign of General Pope, including the second battle of Bull Run; and the march to Frederick City; the winter and spring campaign of 1862 and 1863, under Major-general Joseph Hooker, at Dumfries, was memorable for its intense suffering; then came the march to Chancellorsville, and the battle there, which began May 1st, and ended on the 3d, in which the Twenty-ninth suffered heavy loss and was the last to leave the field. May 5th we crossed the Rappahannock on our way to Gettysburg via Aqua creek, Dumfries, Fairfax Court House, Leesburg, Edward's Ferry, Harper's Ferry, Frederick, and Littletown, where we fought one of the most determined battles of the war, commencing on the 1st and ending on the 4th day of July, 1863.
We returned to Virginia; moved to New York to quell riots; returned again; advanced to the Rapidan; reported to the Department of the Cumberland, via the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, crossing the Ohio river at Bellaire. On September 30th, we passed through Columbus, Ohio; Indianapolis, Indiana, and Louisville, Kentucky, and halted at Murfreesboro, Tennessee. In October we passed down to Stevenson and Bridgeport, Alabama, and up the Tennessee river to Wauhatchie valley.
On November 24th and 25th, we were engaged in the battle of Lookout mountain; Missionary Ridge on November 24th and 25th, and Taylor's Ridge and Ringgold, Georgia, on November 26th and 27th, 1863.
