is perhaps unnecessary to mention that the Twenty-ninth boys enjoyed good fires to-day. In the afternoon the Twenty-ninth went on picket one mile to the rear. Seventeenth, brigade counter-marched to Fairfax station, where it remained until the 19th, when it moved south-*east about one and one-half miles to an orchard, where it encamped, and where it remained until the 27th, when it marched at 9 A. M; reached Broad run late in the evening. On the hill on the south side of the creek was a fort occupied by rebels; the Twenty-ninth crossed the creek, halted, loaded their guns, and advanced, and a red-hot little skirmish ensued at the close of which the rebels fell back. We went into the fort, sending two companies out in the road leading towards Dumfries as skirmishers. The regiment remained on arms all night; cold and frosty. Guns are not very warm bed-fellows. Twenty-eighth, marched at 7:30 A. M., Twenty-ninth in advance of division. About 10 o'clock met some rebel cavalry; the Twenty-ninth regiment deployed into line of battle, a few shots were fired, and the rebels fell back. One man wounded in company A. While in this position Generals Slocum, Geary, and Green came up; a battery was soon in position which sent a few shots after the retreating rebel cavalry. In the afternoon marched through the woods on right of road, in line of battle, while the division moved in the road; skirmishing the balance of the day. At dark we halted three miles from Dumfries and camped for the night. Twenty-ninth, reached Dumfries' about 10 o'clock A. M., and went into camp on the side hill in the woods north of town.
January 1, 1863, the regiment and its brigade remained at Dumfries, doing camp and picket duty, until January 16th, when it was ordered to march on two
