April 21 — This forenoon we started on a big mountain raid to West Virginia, with General Jones’ cavalry brigade. We drew ten days’ rations of hard tack when we started, and I suppose we are to obtain our meat by legitimate foraging in the name of the Southern Confederacy.
We left the Valley pike two miles below Harrisonburg and moved in a northwesterly direction toward Brock’s Gap. Most of the country we passed through to-day is rolling and rough. We crossed Linvill’s Creek this afternoon. The land along this little stream is beautiful and of an excellent quality. Camped near Brock’s Gap.
