It was after eight o'clock last night before the train got
under way. At midnight we passed through Harrisburg, Penn. The night very dark.
Did not get much sleep. A slow, tiresome journey. Passed through York, on over
the state line into Maryland. Soldiers are on guard along the railroad. The
train moved along very slowly, making many stops. About noon-time arrived in
Baltimore. The regiment soon formed in line and marched through the city,
stopping at the Soldier's Rest on Camden Street, where dinner was served,
bread, salt-beef, and coffee. Then waited for transportation to Washington.
Late in the day orders were received to report at Fort McHenry for duty, and
relieve the 48th New York Regiment. A march of four miles. That put our
regiment in the 8th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, General John E. Wool,
Commander, Brigadier N. W. Morris, commanding the fort.
SOURCE: Charles H. Lynch, The Civil War Diary,
1862-1865, of Charles H. Lynch 18th Conn. Vol's, p. 8
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