Boys got ready to go for forage, when orders came to report
to H quarters immediately, lightly equipped. E, G. H and C went under Capt.
Stewart over the river to Morgantown. A “coffee” girl brought us some peaches.
Ate dinner with Rebs. $200 for a pan of flour. Lady said she paid $3,000 for 35
lbs. Take nothing but rebel money. Took two or three prisoners, citizens. E Co.
let one get away. Camped at Mr. Griffith's near Unitia. Union people, gave us a
good supper. Slept in a wheat stack.
SOURCE: Frances Andrews Tenney, War Diary Of Luman
Harris Tenney, p. 86
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