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Whilst here, we indulged in ‘roasting-ears’ and fresh potatoes, purchased from neighboring farmers, and one of the boys, who was said to have eaten a dozen ears of corn for his dinner one day, had a spell of typhoid fever. We had our ‘bunks’ in the woods at first, but the surgeon required us to pitch our tents in the cleared land, and to sleep in them. This was, in many respects, a delightful camping-place, though we had to march about a mile every day—sometimes twice a day—to find level ground suitable for the battery-drills. Many friends from our homes called on us at this camp, and here we received frequent boxes and barrels of ‘provisions,’ and even supplies of books!
We had the following additions to our company after the First Battle of Manassas:
July 23d—John M. Brown, John L. Brown, Alexander Conner, William H. Cox, Henry T. Darnall, William H. H. Dixon, William Carson, E. Boyd Faulkner, John Fuller, Alfred Gold, John F. Hall, James Rutherford Houston, John H. Leckey, James P. Lewis, John E. McCauley, William A. McCorkle, John L. Moore, John F. Nicely, Henry R. Paine, George W. Reintzell, John Saville, Joseph F. Shaner, James W. Tomlinson, Robert Van Pelt, Andrew J. Vest, John Wilson, George A. Walker, James S. Walker, John W. Walker.
July 25th—Robert K. Compton.
July 27th—C. N. B. Minor, Kinloch Nelson (transferred from the Albemarle Light Horse, which he had joined May 11, 1861,) and Phil Nelson.
July 29th—Jonathan Agner and John T. Agner.
August 8th—Algernon S. Whitt.
August 10th—Randolph Fairfax, William W. Houston.
August 12th—William M. Wilson.
August 14—John T. Gibson.
August 15th—William H. Byrd, Lucas P. Thompson.
23d—G. Newton Byers.
25th—Robert B. Winston.
September 1st—Abner E. Arnold.
September 2d—Edgar G. Alexandria (transferred from Captain Sheetz's company), L. M. Blackford, J. Howard Smith, Summerfield Smith.
10th—Charles O. Veers.
