June 22 — To-day we moved two miles in the direction of Richmond and camped. This afternoon I went to Richmond with the first gun of our battery and delivered it at Confederate States Armory as a worn-out gun unfit for further use in the field. After I delivered my gun according to order, I came to our wagon camp, about six miles northwest of Richmond.
Richmond, now the temporary capital of the Confederate States, is pleasantly situated on the left bank of the James River at the head of tide-water, and about one hundred miles a little west of south of Washington. The country around the city is nearly level and the land seems to be fertile and of good quality. The site of the city is an undulating slope, dipping gently to the southeast.
