Day 75. May 14, 1862. (page 2)
fox-hunt yip mixed up with a sort of banshee squall….
May Wensday 14 1862
It is quite cloudy this morning and it looks as if it going to be wet. I road part of the way in the ambulance. It is quite showering this day and the roads is awfully mudy the men are quite mudy. It rained one very hard shower today. We came along the Shenandoah river the South Branch. We came to the town of Frountroyal the county seat of Warren county VA. The 84* PV was in town when we came in town. There was two fine Hospitals built by the confederates. They are very they are large and well finished. We camp about ½ mile from town on the east of town. The whole of Gen Shields Division is here this evening. It is wet this evening and the men have no tents. Our Regt 110 was the Regt and Frountroyal is very nicely situated and plenty room to build a large town. There is ¾ of a Rail Road branch runs in from the Manasses Rail Road that goes to Strausburg. Took up the line of march at 7oclock
*Color lithograph of 84th & 110th PA: Camp near Falmouth, Va.; 84th Pa. V., Lt. Col. Milton Opp Com’d’g.; Camp 1st U.S.S.S., Lt. Col. Caspar Frepp, Com’d’g.; Camp 2d U.S.S.S., Maj. Homer R. Stoughton Com’d’g.; Camp 110th Pa. V., Capt. Isaac Rogers Com’d’g., undated:
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Civil War Weather in Virginia Robert K. Krick P. 55
“Invading Northern troops swarmed through Front Royal, where it was “raining very hard,” on May 14; the next day continued “cloudy and rainy.”
7a.m. 64; 2p.m. 56; 9p.m. 57.”
Note: Lucy Buck writes:
