Lieut. Enos R. Artman
Gloucster Point near Yorktown
Saturday Aug.23rd 1862

                            Gloucster Point near Yorktown
                                     Saturday Aug.23rd 1862
Dear Friend
                        Your welcome letter reached me
just before we left Harrisons landing and
so I had to delay answering it until now which
I think is a much stronger excuse than you gave
for not answering mine but I suppose you did
not state the real cause for the delay.
I will give you a short sketch of our marches
from our last place (Harrison's Landing) to this. 4 days
before we started we were ordered to have 3 days
rations in our haversacks and 3 days rations in the wagons
but when we started we had consumed it nearly
all so on Saturday morning last at 3 AM, we
(our Division) left Harrison's landing and marched
about 10 miles the weather was nice and cool
and our trip was pleasant we marched through
Charles City, which contains one house beside the Court
House and Jail and encamped in a cornfield.
The boys made fires and we had a corn roasting
all around then cut down the stalks for beds.
in the morning we started before sunrise the
day was very warm and we did not enjoy the march
quite so much. we traveled about 14 miles and
stoped near another corn field which we
served the same way. on Monday as usual
the rising sun found us about 3 miles from
our camp, and by noon we passed through
Williamsburg and over the old Battle ground
where many a brave man bit the dust some
3 months before. We encamped about 3 miles
beyond. That night Co D had the pleasure of going
on picket. We were told that the enemy was

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