Left camp very early
this morning. A heavy downpour of rain. Passed through Georgetown, on through
Washington. The mud in Pennsylvania Avenue was ankle deep. Marching very hard
and disagreeable, so much so that we were obliged to take off our leggins and throw
them away. Our first time in Washington. Boarded a train at the B. & O. R.
R. station, going north. Nothing important taken place. At the Relay House,
near Baltimore, train switched to the west bound track. After a long tedious
ride we reached the Monocacy Junction, thence to Frederick City, where we left
the train and began a march out on the South Mountain Road, passing New York's
crack regiment, the 7th, on picket duty. Stopped at the top of South Mountain.
SOURCE: Charles H. Lynch, The Civil War Diary,
1862-1865, of Charles H. Lynch 18th Conn. Vol's, p. 24-5
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