refreshing after a week's march -- just ordered to go to Falmouth
opposite Fredericksburg at 1 P.M. Sd. Rebels are evacuating
F -- not so -- Marched at 1 -- about 7
in pine woods -- near R.R. -- roads muddy -- teams up in good
time. Marched afoot about 2 miles with a musket -- felt
chilly & have a cold -- Passed many encampments &
deserter camps -- dead horses -&c a fine old table monument
under a fine clump of old trees with gigantic grape vines over-
running them -- it was to "Mrs. Margaret wife of Peter Hedgman [?]
of Stafford Co. gentleman -- died 1754. aged 52 etc Conjux Dolens
H.M.P." a pussy cat that has followed us all the way fr.
Fairfax sits on my lap while I write -- Cavalry in large
bodies pass to front --& the road is ordered to be kept clean
by our camp -- for Artillery to go to front. We are now within
8 miles of the rebels -- go to Falmouth at 9 -- where Burnsides
Army lies. the whole brigade is close together here -- & woods
full of smoke fr. watch fires -- trees crashing in all directions
the band played Annie Laurie tonight.
Conjux or Coniux Dolens H[oc] M[onumentum] P[osuit] translates roughly as Grieving Husband Erected This Monument.
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