November 11—This morning we started to Linden station on the Manassas Gap Railroad, seven miles below Front Royal. The country we passed through to-day after we crossed the Shenandoah River is poor and the road rough. We passed some of General Ewell’s men that had been on the Blue Ridge destroying the railroad. We saw their work of destruction all along the road up the western side of the ridge. They burnt the ties and crooked the rails by heating them on a pile of burning ties. Camped to-night on the Blue Ridge within one mile of Linden.
