Thursday, July 14th.
Ten companies of the regiment under Lieut. Col. Alcock were to-day ordered to report to General Hunt, Chief of Artillery of the Army of the Potomac, and were assigned to the Siege Train, Col. Henry S. Abbott commanding, and as soon as other infantry troops arrived to take our place on the lines, we moved to a point in the woods near the Engineers and laid out our first regular camp since we left Culpepper. This is the ninth disposition that has been made of my battalion since we left Fort Marcy, but the officers and men feel particularly elated that the regiment, or the greater part of it, has been brought together, and that at last, after losing more than half of our men, we are to be permitted to perform the duty for which we enlisted, and we wonder whether our letter to the President had anything to do with this assignment but, of course, we shall never know.
