General Buckner is commanding one division of Johnson's corps.
"Hood's old division" is leaving East Tennessee for Dalton, Georgia.
Bushrod Johnson will be left to guard the salt works.
Fuller and his company are about 260 miles from Lynchburg, Virginia- the only outlet by railroad.
He thinks he may leave in the morning in the direction of Bristol.]]> He asks is his son, Willey, can talk yet.]]> He sends $100 home to his wife and asks her to write back, as he hasn't received a letter from her in some time.]]> On the 13th, Fuller and his regiment left Culpeper, Virginia to the Cedar Run battlefield so soldiers could see the remains of their friends.
(Fuller's description of the decomposition of the fallen soldiers lines up with the amount of time since the Battle of Cedar Mountain on August 9, 1862)
He then marched from Cedar Run to Snickers Ford and camped at the top of Blue Ridge.]]> The house of the Dutch family Fuller is staying with is two miles from New Market, Virginia.
Stonewall Jackson has crossed the Blue Ridge towards Richmond.
All of the Confederate Army is heading towards Richmond and a heavy battle is expected.]]> He is staying with a Dutch family who are treating him well.]]> He tells his brother to not leave the house if he can help it, for fear that the new conscription law may drag him into the war as well.]]>
It is useful to note that the Battle of Cedar Run takes place on August 8th and the Battle of Richmond on August 29-30.]]> On June 26, Fuller reports how he left Richmond with the army on the 24th, and left all of his belongings save the clothes on his person. He went a day and a half marching and without eating anything. He wishes to be home.]]> ]]>
by Ernest S. Williams]]>
by J.S. Bach]]>
by Svendsen, Jessel, P. Lacome,]]>