Camp Green Meadwos, July 13, 1862. Sunday. — Struck tents this morning on Flat Top at 5 A. M. and marched to this place, reaching here at 11:30A. M., fourteen miles; a jolly march down the mountain under a hot sun. Many sore feet.
Band played its lively airs; the men cheered, and all enjoyed the change. We are east of Camp Jones and about three miles from the mouth of Bluestone River and New River, within six miles of camp at Packs Ferry on New River. The camp being one thousand to fifteen hundred feet lower than Flat Top is warmer. We shall learn how to bear summer weather here. Our waggons arrived about 6:30 P. M. We relieved here two companies of the Thirtieth under Captain Gross. I command here six companies Twenty-third, Captain Gilmore’s Cavalry, a squad of Second Virginia, a squad of McMullen’s Battery, and a squad on picket of Captain Harrison’s Cavalry.
