Battery in camp near
Poolesville; we, the centre section, on picket at Conrad's Ferry. Our picket
duty, at this place, has been a very pleasant one, being very light, except the
guard duty. Firing of videttes was very frequent during the night. But never did
either party disturb the other with artillery practice during our stay.
Sometimes signal rockets were sent up on the Maryland side, by rebel
sympathizers, which were generally answered from the Virginia shore. General
Stone had strong block-houses, of solid oak-timber, built on the line from
Muddy Branch to Conrad's Ferry, for the defence of the Maryland side, large
enough to hold three hundred men each. May it be remembered, pigs had to suffer
in our neighborhood. The weather, having been pleasant for weeks, became very
wintry after the first of January.
SOURCE: Theodore
Reichardt, Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light
Artillery, p. 30-1
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