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26 Virginia from this rock. We remained in Harpers Ferry a few days. Our company acting as provost guard we then marched to Bolivar(?) Heights where about 2 miles distant where we remained for several days. Then we marched to Charleston where after a short stay we moved on to Berryville we drove the rebels before us out of the village. Some of the printers of our regt. took possession of the Office of the Berryville Conservator and published two numbers of a paper to Suit their own politics. We marched on the 12th of march to Winchester and back to Berryville the same day. This was the first day Col. Sully commanded the regt. the boys were well pleased with the prospect. We eventually returned to Harpers Ferry where we took the cars on the 22d of March to Washington. We remained in Washington several days. Our dress parades in the Capitol Grounds were very successful. We were finally to be received by the President, but Old Gorman got mad and showed his narrow mindedness by breaking it up. We soon went across the Potomac to Alexandria where on the 29th of March we embarked for Hampton Roads. We steamed down the river a few miles that night and anchored. Just at daylight we got under way and passed Mount Vernon and Ft. Washington. It was so fogy that I could not get a good view of Mount Vernon but I have since had several opportunities to obtain as good a view of it as the thick foliage would permit. We anchored that night in the mouth of the Potomac. The next night we anchored at Fortress Monroe. On the 1st of April we landed at Hampton. This village has been burned to ashes by order of the traitor Magruder. While we were camped near this place we had an opportunity to read the inscription on several of the old grave stones. Some of them bore the date 1657. We left here on the 4th and moved on to Big Bethel where our forces were defeated last year now was this surprising considering the position and the pains that had