Idea of the whole affair. I will give you some items, On Fryday night Oct 24th we were called out in line about 11 oclock & ordered to be ready all of us that felt able for a rapid march by 2 o clock to have one days ration cooked & in our haversacks, & to pack our blankets in our knapsacks, the quartermaster to load up six days rations, so we cooked, & packed rubed up our guns & talked & eat breakfast about 1 oclock when it began to mist & get quite cold & a little before daylight we got under way. It began to snow about daylight & continued until near noon, about 3 inches, we marhed that day to & across Black River 24. ms. We used fences for fuel, that night was pretty hard on us, we had no tents, we scraped away the snow & spread one or two blankets under us & 3 or 4 on top & slept tolerably comfortably, in the morning I saw some of the boys tearing their blankets loose where the had frozen to the ground, W started on the march early