WEDNESDAY, April 16.  There is talk that we are to be removed to New Market.  The talk is correct.  We leave here at twelve o’clock, and come to Bethlehem church where we stay all night.  This church is between nine and ten miles northeast of Harrisonburg on the valley pike leading from Staunton to Winchester.

THURSDAY, April 17.  Start for New Market; but after getting on two miles hear the cannons at Mt.  Jackson.  We turn and go back to Harrisonburg.  News comes of the retreat of Jackson’s army.  Front of the Federal army at New Market.  Jackson halts for the night at Lacy Springs.

FRIDAY, April 18.  Great excitement and confusion in town.  General Jackson with his army passes through in his retreat, and the Federal troops are hourly looked for.  Gabriel Heatwohl, Joseph Berry and myself are released from the guard house.  I dine at Samuel Shacklett’s; then walk out to Samuel Niswander’s three miles, and ride from there to Jacob Miller’s, where I stay all night.

SATURDAY, April 19.  Brother Benjamin Bowman brings me on my way home nearly to Christian Wine’s.  I walk the short distance to Brother Wine’s; get a horse of him, and come home.

SUNDAY, April 20.  Easter.  Cough very bad.

WEDNESDAY, April 23.  Federal cavalry through here now.  Brother Daniel
Miller was taken last night by Confederate scouts.

FRIDAY, May 9.  Preach the funeral of Sister Polly Summers.  Age, seventy-seven years, one month and sixteen days.

TUESDAY, May 20.  Preach the funeral of Sister Polly Holsinger.  Age, seventy-seven years.  Three sisters in our church buried so close together in time, and all so nearly the same age!

MONDAY, May 26.  Sister Debby Bowman is buried to-day.  I attend.  Age, forty-two years, eleven months and twenty days.

TUESDAY, May 27.  Preach the funeral of Mrs. Stern.  Age, fifty-six years, three months and twenty days.

THURSDAY, May 29.  Start to the Annual Meeting.  Dine at James Fitzwater’s in the Gap; sup at Nimrod Judy’s on the South Fork, and stay all night at Jacob Mongold’s on the South Fork mountain.

FRIDAY, May 30.  Get my pass at Petersburg; dine at James Parks’s; and stay all night at Martain Cosner’s, in Hardy County.

SATURDAY, May 31.  Get to Thomas Clark’s at three o’clock, and stay there all night.

SUNDAY, June 1.  Go to meeting at Brother Rinker’s.  Speak from Romans eighth chapter.  Meeting again at three o’clock.  Speak from John seventeenth chapter.  Stay all night at Brother Rinker’s.

MONDAY, June 2.  Come to Oakland in the morning to take the train westward, but cars are behind time.  Get to Bellaire after night.  Stay there all night, at Eagle Hotel.

TUESDAY, June 3.  Get to Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, at three o’clock in the afternoon.  Stay all night at Brother Henry Yost’s.

WEDNESDAY, June 4.  Visit Christian Forrer’s.  Go about through the city.  Then start, and get to place of Annual Meeting in afternoon.  Stay all night at Brother Billheimer’s.