around Mount Jackson, while the remainder of the regiment moved up the valley to Camp Thurburn and continued the usual picket, camp, and guard duties.
May 3d left camp and marched up the valley in the direction of Harrisburg; halted about three miles from town and camped for the night. May 5th, returned from near the town of Harrisburg and went into camp four miles above Newmarket, where the regiment remained until the 12th day of May, when it left the Shenandoah valley at Newmarket on the long march to Fredericksburg, marched to Luray, and encamped for the night (marched eighteen miles). Thirteenth, moved at 7 A. M. The Twenty-ninth, was detailed as rear guard. Fourteenth, marched at 6, reached Front Royal at 3:30 P. M. and camped for the night. Fifteenth, marched at 9 A. M., traveled thirteen miles, and went into camp. Sixteenth, marched at 6:30 A. M., reached Gains' Cross Road, and camped for the night, (marched ten miles). May 17th, marched at 6 A. M., and reached Warrenton (distance of eighteen miles), and went into camp for the night. Sunday, May 18th, remained in camp. Monday, 19th, marched at 5 o'clock A. M., and at 3 P. M. reached the Orange & Alexandria railroad at Catlet's Station, and went into camp. Remained until May 21st, when the regiment again marched at 6 A. M., halting at 10:30 P. M. for the night. Twenty-second, marched at 7 A. M., reached Falmouth in the evening, and went into camp. Friday, May 23d, the army under Major-general McDowell was reviewed by Abraham Lincoln, the President of the United States, with satisfactory results. Sunday, 25th, marched at 6 A. M., and at 4:30 went into camp. Twenty-sixth, marched at 5 A. M., and camped for the night at Catlet's Station. Twenty-seventh, marched some four miles on the Manassas Gap.
