June 1 — This morning we left our camp at Dayton and are now bound for eastern Virginia, where war seems to be in full bloom, and no doubt we will soon be in the midst of the throes and struggles of sanguinary war and hear the dreadful crash of battle, where barbarism will be trying to batter down and crush the fragile bulwarks of our boasted civilization and puncture our soft-shelled Christianity and enlightenment.
We passed through Harrisonburg and took the Standardsville pike, marching twenty-one miles to-day. Camped this evening on the right bank of the Shenandoah seventeen miles east of Harrisonburg, and on the same spot that we were camped in the latter part of April, 1862.
