January 26 — This morning we received orders to go with Ashby’s Cavalry on a scout. At nine o’clock we were on the march. We went up the Winchester pike ten miles to Bunker’s Hill. There we left the pike and came by Smithfield to Charlestown, where we arrived after dark. We are quartered in the Court House. This is the town where the insurrectionist, John Brown, obtained a permit to paddle his canoe across the Styx.
Three Years in the Confederate Horse Artillery — George Michael Neese.
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