We have commenced
moving our camp equipage from Camp Vanderwerken to this place, to be named Camp
Griffin—I suppose for Capt. Griffin, of one of the batteries of the regular
army. Capt. G., with his battery, has been one of us and with us since we
crossed the Potomac. We have had much trouble and vexation to-day in
establishing medical headquarters for the regiments of our brigade, but after
much ordering of us and changing of orders, we are at last to take charge of
the stone house of Mr. Jno. N. Johnson, in which, and in the tents we are able
to pitch, we hope to make comfortable all the sick of our brigade.
SOURCE: Alfred L.
Castleman, The Army of the Potomac. Behind the Scenes. A Diary of
Unwritten History; From the Organization of the Army, by General George B.
McClellan, to the close of the Campaign in Virginia about the First Day
January, 1863, p. 41-2
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