Sept the 1 
     This morning we took a slight breakfast and went to Brockville - we took dinner there and while at dinner the Rebels fired on us from the opposite side of the river and our men fired about 50 shots at them and they quit shooting - after dinner we started up the river on our way to Brown County - when we got one mile we discovered some Rebels over in a cornfield on the opposite side of the river - we started over to them and surround them and shot 2 of them dead and wounded one and took one prisoner and 3 guns and 2 horses - we concluded to go back to Booksville for a few days and scout the hills over and 

Sept the 2 
     on Monday we start on a scout and all day and came back in the evening without doing anything and very hungry and not much to eat at home - This morning we started down the Big Bend and we came to the neck of the bend and there the Rebels fired on us and we started on past them and the captain said we must have relief - so he sent me back with 2 men to camp and when we get to where they fired on us I seen them rise up in the fence corners and their guns snapped at us as much as a dozen or 18 of them and after we got past - 2 or 3 or them shot at us but did not hit us - we run as hard as we could and when we got in sight of a house we seen a light in it and I thought that they heard us shooting at the neck and had got up to prepare for us when we came back and were waylaying us - just as we get to the house there was a cow on the opposite side of the road by a stable and she jumped up and run and I 
thought it was the Rebels waylaying us and I made a big jump and got ahead of the other two and the guide run up and tromped on my head and that threw me down and my gun fell out of my hand - I grabbed it up and fell down again and dropped the gun again will I was mistaken for the house was a Union house and I had my fall for nothing - we went on to camp without anything further to detain us - we started back with 50 men we got back to the bend at daylight the Rebels had fled to the cornfield and to the woods and when we came up the commenced to fire on us one of our men got shot through the calf of the leg and just then a large ball cut off a Jamestown weed at my feed and other balls passed over our heads but did not hit any of us while we were going back to camp our men got down in the fence corners and under the bank to wait till we came back - while they were sitting there one of the Rebels came and sat down with them there - a mistake - he thought they were his own crowd but when it got light he found his mistake - they asked him how many there was of them that fired on us - he said there was fifty of them there and 50 more at the mill about one mile from there - some of the officers took him out and shot him through the head - we set fire to their houses and went on to the mill - we scattered out and got our breakfast - I never got a meal that I appreciated as much as that one in all my life - it was bout 10 o'clock AM and we had taken a slight supper the night before - after breakfast we started back to camp we killed three of the Rebels and burned four of their houses. 

September the 3 
     we still scouted every day and brought in Rebels and they took the oath. 

Wednesday the 4 
     we started on a scout to Shorte Creek and that night we stayed at Mr. Burmages and at 3 o'clock AM we started to the head of the creek - we got there at daylight at a Secesh house and found the folks all up and the men all gone and the women said that they did not know where they had was so we searched their house and found their house in tolerable good order and found one gun and the boys went up the run and found in a thicket a carpet sack and a box of candles and a barrel of salt and about 2 hundred slabs of bacon and other things - we took breakfast or part of us did with them and the rest came back to Mr. Burmages and took a good meal there - one thing I forgot to state about my last night adventure - well after supper we went to the haymow to sleep or part of us did for feer the 
Rebels would come on us by surprise - we hid up in the mow and the fleas commenced to use me up - I got up 3 or 4 times and tried to shoo them off but it did not do any good so I got down and went to the house and stripped off my clothes and shook them and laid down on the floor and took a snooze - I never had such a time in all my life with the fleas - Ive got ehm in th peach orchard for - boys run there and I went to get peaches there. 

Thursday the 5 
     we started back to camp which we arrived at before night rather tired - we brought some men along with us and they took the oath and returned to their homes again - while we were on our scouts we had another scout sent over to the West fork of the Kanawha river - he had a lively time they killed six Secesh and burned 5 or six houses - we had two men shot one fatal and the other slight - the one was Lieutenant McLaskey of Company H and the other a private of the same company - he was shot through the forearm only a flesh wound - the lieutenant was shot through the bowels and he died the next evening at six o'clock - they carried him ten miles on a littler - the next we were sent down to pick him up if he was alive but when we got there he was dead and they had sent him to his friends. 

Saturday the 7 

Sunday the 8 
     today we did not have anyting to do so I got permission to go and hunt my knife tha I lost the Sunday before at the scrimmage in the cornfield - well I stopped at Mr. Riddels whre we had the scrimmage - we had the old man Riddel as a prisoner for 2 days and we realized I did not find my knife so I went up to Riddels house and stayed for dinner with them - After I had been there some time his son came out and got me to look at a wound that he got on the Sunday before in the cornfield - the wound was in the clavicle and lodged in his neck - it was buck shot - his father wanted him to let me cut out the ball but he would not have it done. 

Monday the 9 
   today I went on picket guard we had a good day of it (Tuesday the 10 lined out) we held a election here today and elected two magistrates and one constable. 

Tuesday the 10 
     this morning the captain told me to call in pickets and prepare to march which we did at noon and we got about ten miles that evening - we stayed at Baldis church on the road and the next day we started early and about noon one of our men was shot through the side and the ball went through his left lung and lodged so we were delayed a while - we had to stop with him at the mouth Tanners Ford and stay all night - I stayed with the captain and ten other men - the Battalion went on 5 miles further of Mr. Hoults - the next morning we got a conoe and took him to Glenville about 4 o'clock PM - our wounded man was some better this was on Thursday the 12 and we rested on Friday the 13th and Saturday the 14 we started for Flatwoods - this was a hard march we had our knapsacks to carry and the weather was very warm - I was nearly give out - this night we camped on the bank of the river and the next morning 
we started early 

This was Sunday the 15th 
     this evening we got to Bullton quite tired and hungry. 

Monday the 16th 
     we rested today and waited for a dispatch from the General so on 

Tuesday the 17 
     morning we had orders to go to Flatwoods to hold it as a post - so we started and got there at 2   o'clock PM and here we pitched out tents and got our dinners - I did not think we would stay but a few days but we stayed 2 or 3 months - that night we put out our pickets and some of us had not went to sleep till the report of 2 guns was fired and the boys run in saying that they had seen the Rebels - we were ordered out to see what was the matter but when we got there there was nothing to be seen - the boys were scared for nothing so we went back and turned in and slept till morning without disturbance. 

Wednesday the 18th 
     we fixed up our tents and arranged the camp - nothing of interest seems to exist 

Thursday the 19 
     nothing unusual 

Friday the 20 
     we have frequent visits from the civilians - they bring us chickens and butter and vetetables 

Saturday the 21 
     everything quiet today 

Sunday the 22 
     today one of our men got shot through the hand by accident - he was climbing over the fence and the cock caught on a nail and it went through his hand it is a bad wound - this is the first Sunday in Flatwoods - I have a sick man from the 30 Regiment of Ohio - he is very sick 

Monday the 23 
     nothing unusual today 

Tuesday the 24 
     a fine day - my patient some better today 

Wednesday the 25 
     this is a general fast day - I have slept till noon and then I took a hearty mean - some of the boys slept all day but most of them did not 

Thursday the 26 
     This is a wet morning - it has rained all night - our tents are very good shelters 

Friday the 27 
     it still rais and the air is turning cold and feels like frost 

Sep 28 
     the weather cool today and gloomy 

Sunday the 29 
     there is a heavy fog this morning and some frost - this is going to be a nice day but it does not seem like Sunday to me - I have not seen Sunday since we left Clarksburg 

Monday the 30 
     this is a nice day and the camp is quiet and dull 

Tuesday the 1st of October 
     this is a fine day but nothing going on in camp - we do not have much to do - my patient went home Sunday - I forgot to state about the heavy rains that we had last week - the done a great amount of damage - Elk river was ten feet higher than it ever was known and it took 3 miles off and damaged the bridge at Sutton considerable - the Bulltown Salt works was damaged very much - the commissary at Sutton lost about one hundred bushels of coffee and a large amount of hard bread - the town was overflowed clear 

Wednesday the 2 
     nothing of interest today - I have some sick men to prescribe to