June 19 — We waited this morning until the brigade wagons came up and passed, then we moved to Snickersville. We remained at Snickersville but a little while, when we were ordered back toward Union, as the Yankee cavalry were advancing in that direction. We marched to Union without seeing any Yanks, but we heard artillery firing in the direction of Middleburg, where General Fitzhugh Lee was fighting the Yankee cavalry nearly all day. General Jones fought and drove back a body of Yankee cavalry near Union this morning.
It is raining hard now and the night is gloomy and dark; we are quartered in a barn right in Union. A little while after dark General Jones came into the barn and slept on the straw with us, just like a horse artilleryman.
From all indications the Yankee cavalry is closing in on us from two directions, and we will have some hot work to-morrow.
