Feb. 1 Our camp was about 600 feet on a small hill but it was unusually cold at night with frost but no ice, winter mist steamed off from the large swampy & flooded field. The troops caught no drink, the soil being a hard red clay + dry at this season, but rain times we slept welling on the hills at 7 o'clock around a great growth of chestnuts, pines ash etc with soft black berries & many wilderash. strambles came into bearing pale blue blossoms, some of the deep red Rhode Island flowers were seen. After dinner we passed through mountain side clothed by long virgin forest growing oaken hardwoods, pinnings of walnut + many streams of water wild animals massen here. At 7 PM we had a