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21 my narrative. The second time I went on picket I thought it behooved me to secure a prize from some "Secesh" (?) accordingly after watching a round for some time, I managed to sieze a goose. I immediately made for a place where the canal crosses a creek just at this archway my retreat came near being cutoff by a man, a dog, and an old woman. I had to drop my prize lest I should be reported to head quarters and orders were strict in those days. Some of the boys got hold of my failure and enlarged on it and finally had quite a rig on me for a few weeks, but some of the worst ones getting caught fairly stealing molasses, thier batteries were fairly silenced, and when they named goose, all I had to do was mention molasses. On the 20th of Oct. a little after noon the Long roll was sounded and we were soon under arms and marched down to Edwards Ferry. A few shell were thrown across the river and Co. E of our Regt. crossed in a flat boat to the other side of the river. After remaining a short time they came back and we returned to camp. (About 2 miles distant). We had orders to be ready to mark by daylight the next