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We started started [text repeats] with arms and equipments and canteens and went to corps headquarters and stoped thair about half an hour, and then marched back to camp. Before we got turned in the order came to be in readyness to march at three o'clock in the morning.

17th Three o'clock came and we was turned out and got our breakfast and packed up our knapsacks and then we lay down, went to sleep and slept till after daylight.

18th We got up but see no signs of moving. The order came to have a monthly inspection, which we had at ten o'clock A.M. In the evening we went on a detale and returned without doing anything. Before we lay down at night we wer orderd to be in readyness to move in the morning.

19th We started in the morning to the left and marched about three miles before we saw the enemy and then we drove them a mile acrost the