Sunday, March 22, 1863. — Have gone into camp. My headquarters here. My brigade is Twenty-third Ohio, Fifth Virginia, Colonel Ziegler, Thirteenth Virginia Cavalry, Colonel Brown, Captain Gilmore’s Cavalry, Lieutenant Gonseman’s ditto, and Lieutenant ——;also Captain Simmond’s Battery. Gonseman at Loup and Tompkins Farm. Gilmore, here. Battery at Gauley Bridge; Twenty-third here. Thirteenth at Coal’s Mouth and Hurricane Bridge; Fifth at Ceredo.
The boys will never forget their visit to papa and the Twenty-third. It will be a romatic memory. Webb was a greater favorite than Birch. Mischievous but kind-hearted and affectionate. Birch more scholarly and more commanding. Dear boys, how I love them! They were with me nearly two months in my log cabin camp. Great happiness in log cabins.
