Friday, 18. — A. M. Finished letter to Lucy. Must get ready to move. Put all the regiment into tents today, by one o’clock. A shower fell just after the tents were up.
Colonels Scammon and Ewing [arrived]; Lieutenant Kennedy, A. A. A. G. to Colonel Scammon, and Lieutenant Muenscher, aide, with an escort of horsemen came with them. The Thirtieth began to arrive at 2:30 P. M. They came in the rain. Major Hildt came to my quarters. I joined the regiment out in camp — the camp in front of General Beckley’s residence one mile from Raleigh. Rainy all night. Our right rest on the road leading southwardly towards Princeton, the left on the graveyard of Floyd’s men. The graves are neatly marked; Twentieth Mississippi, Phillips’ Legion, Georgia, Fourth Louisiana, furnished the occupants. Four from one company died in one day! (November 2, 1861.)
Slept in Sibley tent. Received orders to proceed with Twenty-third, thirty [of] Captain Gilmore’s Cavalry, and a section of McMullen’s Battery to Princeton tomorrow at 7 A. M.
