Danbury Times

From the Seventeenth.

STAFFORD C. H., Va.,

Dec. 18, 1862.

Dear Times:—We have been marching, we have. At 3 A. M. Dec. 16th, we were aroused by the reveille, got our breakfast and prepared to start, but it was nearly noon before we got under way. We marched to Fairfax C. H. and halted for the night. The Paymaster met us there, and paid five Companies up to the 1st of Nov. At 7 next A. M. we marched again and passed Fairfax Station, halting for the night in the pine woods near Wolf Run Shoals on the Occoquan, and the remaining five Companies were paid off. It is said that the money was advanced by Private Elias Howe, Jr., of Co. D., he taking Government Bonds as security. The Regiment is much obliged to him. The next A. M. we started again, and halted that night between the last mentioned stopping place and Dumfries. Sunday we marched to Dumfries, and remained there until afternoon Monday waiting for rations, after receiving which we started towards Stafford C. H. and passed through here near night Tuesday. Four Companies under the command of Capt. Moore halted for the night about a mile and a half on the road towards Falmouth. The next A. M. we had a heavy shower of rain. The four companies rejoined the rest at about noon Wednesday, and marched to within a short distance of Falmouth and halted for the night. The next (yesterday) A. M. we started and marched back here, making an eight days' march over the worst roads I ever saw, on account of the mud. The weather most of the time has been fine. We had a little snow yesterday P. M.; today the weather is beautiful. We have received to-day the first mail we have had for a week. I do not know how long we shall remain here, but presume not long.

A. E. B.