General Kearny, March 16, 1862

; : Camp Seminary, Va., March 16, 1862. SIR: I proceed to furnish to the headquarters of the First Brigade ` . (General Franklin’s division) a detailed account of the movements of — – this regiment during the past week, while upon its march towards XN “Manassas and vicinity.

< e E. N. -— company, doing picket duty at the time, repaired to the brigade parade on Friday, the 7th instant, at 1 o'clock p. m., where General Kearny's command was formed. The regiment was provided with the shelter - tents, six days' rations, forty rounds of ball cartridges issued to each man and in the cartridge-boxes, together with thirty extra rounds to each man transported by the quartermaster. With the knapsacks packed and thus provided the regiment, in company with the rest of the brigade, proceeded on its march to Burke's Station, on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, by way of the Little River turnpike and the old Braddock road, reaching its destination about midnight, after a long and tedious march, the road after leaving the turnpike being considerably obstructed with mud.

On the march the flank companies, commanded by Captains Close and Wildrick, were detached and placed under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Brown, of the Third Regiment, constituting, with similar companies from other regiments, a light battalion, in advance of the brigade. The remaining seven companies under my command encamped ‘ at the Station that night, and remained there until the morning of Sunday, the 9th instant, when,

by order of General Kearny, we proceeded