Gusts of rain and wind alternated with flashes of bright sunshine.

The second battalion of the Third Regiment arrived, and the work of completing the cantonments went on.

The huts which were half finished yesterday were now put in good order, and in building the new ones the men profited by the experience of their comrades.

We were however suddenly thrown into one of those small tempests which it is so easy to get up in a new camp, and which for the moment always seems to have an importance out of all proportion to its real consequence.

Captain Rosecrans, as engineer, was superintending the work of building, and finding that the companies were putting floors and bunks in their huts, he peremptorily ordered that these should be taken out, insisting that the huts were only intended to take the place of tents and give such shelter as tents could give.