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From DigitalMaine Transcription Project
� 208 August 25th Alexandria
We are encamped just below Fort Ellsworth and very near old "Camp Vernon". All the Staff have gone either to Alexandria or Washington excepting Capt. Hopkins and myself. I have been chiefly occupied in signing passes for Washington and rearranging my affairs for the approaching campaign. We shall be pushed right on to Manassas without doubt.
[in pencil - appears to be another person's transcription of a missing page]
(Gen. Taylor's Brigade put on flat cars and sent out to Manassas and came suddenly upon the Enemy, were routed and driven back + Gen. Taylor mortally wounded) Twas then sent to find Col. Torbert and put him in Command of the Jersey Brigade -- "I'm not sick any more" --