September 11.

Col. Wild refused to move until our rations came up, for we were all out. Plenty of pigs squealed around here, I tell you. By noon hardly a hog was to be seen. Had a good chicken stew for dinner.

Massena, Capt. Niles, Palmer, Ingolls, George Hervey, myself, and a good many others had our heads shaved.

September 12.

Having got our rations we resumed our march. Very hot, and no water on the road until we got to Newmarket. Reached Monrovia, on the Baltimore and Ohio R.R. about 10:00 A.M. Monrovia is a small town of some note, it being on the R.R. The rebels took from here some 2,000 bbls of flower, so the inhabitants told us.

Reached Newmarket in a short time and lay beside the road 3 or 4 hours in the hot sun waiting for Burnside and his army to cross in front of us, there being cross-roads in the town, he coming from the north of us. We than fell in his rear and “onward marched,” reaching Frederic City a little before dark.

We camped about a mile and a half this side of the city, the rebels but a few hours ahead of us, having been driven through the city by our troops the forenoon before. Here we had a river15 to wash in which improved us the next day.