General Lee and the
rebel army have crossed the Potomac River into Virginia. I saw a number of
prisoners who were taken at the river. They informed us that we were too late,
Lee was pushing up the valley. We are again on the march, going south, up and
over the South Mountain. A hot, hard, dusty march as we go pushing along. A
soldier's life in the field is a severe one. Came to a halt in the valley, near
Sandy Hook. The 2nd Corps passed. Met some of the 14th Connecticut as the corps
came to a halt. I had friends in that regiment who I was anxious to see. One
who I expected to meet was Walter Standish. I asked for him, was informed that
he was killed at Gettysburg. Again on the march. Passed through the town of
Sandy Hook, on over the Potomac into Harper's Ferry, crossing the Shenandoah
River, up Loudon Heights, into the Loudon Valley, Virginia. Pushing right up
the valley to guard the gaps in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
SOURCE: Charles H. Lynch, The Civil War Diary,
1862-1865, of Charles H. Lynch 18th Conn. Vol's, p. 25-6
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