er 15._--Centreville. The battery is refilling ammunition.
_Friday, October 16._--A heavy rain. The battery advanced in front of Cub
Run.
_Saturday, October 17._--Cub Run. Cannonading is going on near Bull Run.
The left section received new guns. During the afternoon the engineers
laid a pontoon bridge across Cub Run, without meeting any opposition. The
battery turned out to support, while a brigade of cavalry and some horse
artillery, crossed the Run to reconnoitre.
_Sunday, October 18._--Cub Run. The cavalry is fighting on the way from
Manassas Junction to Bristow Station.
_Monday, October 19._--A heavy fall of rain at four o'clock in the
morning. The Second and Third corps crossed Cub Run by daybreak, marched
over Bull Run and Manassas Junction, and went to camp two miles from
Bristow Station. The infantry carries rations for ten days. We marched
eight miles to-day. The rebels have broken up the Orange and Alexandria
railroad.
_Tuesday, October 20._--Marched over the battle-field at Bristow Station
and through Greenwich, going in position on Coffee Hill at dark. Marched
eighteen miles to-day.
_Wednesday, October 21._--Remained on Coffee Hill all day. The remains of
the soldiers who fell here on the fourteenth were buried by our troops.
The Third corps advanced further.
_Thursday, October 22._--Coffee Hill. Changed camp this afternoon.
_Friday, October 23._--Marched to within two miles of Warrenton Junction,
going in camp.
_Saturday, October 24._--Camp near Warrenton Junction.
_Monday, October 26._--Cannonading going on, some distance off. All the
artillery of our corps was packed up until half-past six o'clock.
_Wednesday, October 28._--Skirmishing going on at Bealton Station.
_Saturday, October 31._--Camp near Warrenton. The battery was mustered in
for two months service, by Captain Hassard, of Battery B. Mounted
inspection at eleven o'clock A. M., by Lieutenant Colonel Munroe,
Chief-of-Artillery of the Second corps, our former lieutenant.
_Friday, November 6._--Review of the artillery of the Second corps, by
Lieutenant Colonel Munroe.
_Saturday, November 7._--The army in motion. All the corps are marching
towards the Rappahannock. Forced march to Bealton Station. Our corps took
the road towards Kelly's Ford. The Sixth corps surprised the rebels
completely at Rappahannock Ford, charged on their works, and captured four
guns, four colors, and eight hundred prisoners--four colonels and th
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