canopy for a cover. At 3 o'clock on the morning of the 24th we march rapidly forward through the villages of Markham and Linden, halting for dinner at Manassas gap, then forward, changing direction by column to the south-southeast, in the direction of White Plains. Marching sixteen miles we halted for the night.
The next day we marched to White Plains, and the next by the way of Thoroughfare gap, Haymarket, and Greenwich, the latter a pretty little village, settled by English people, for whose protection guards were stationed, as they were in fact in many instances for the protection of rebel property. After a brief halt we marched forward via Catlett's station and Warrenton, where we joined the First and Eleventh corps of our army and encamped for the night, then forward again to Kelley's Ford, on the Rappahannock, when, after a short visit, the brigade took cars for Alexandria, Virginia, under orders for New York city, to quell the memorable draft riots induced by the Southern sympathizers and copperheads.
On August 23d we embarked on the steamer Baltic and moved down the Potomac. When near its outlet we went fast aground. This action occurred about noon on the 24th, and three days elapsed before we were again on the move. On the 28th, at 9:45 A. M., we round Cape Henry and strike the swells of the Atlantic. A rough sea soon sends many of the command to the rail to—well, if the reader was ever seasick he will appreciate the situation. It is not pleasant to linger long upon this scene; the recollection of it, even now, almost destroys one's interest in sublunary affairs.
On the 29th we pass the narrows and enter New York harbor, coming to anchor near Governor's Island at 12 o'clock M.
