While at Camp Pope the requisite details were made, and while numbers
at home were thus being added to the rolls, the Regiment continued its
active service in the field, marching out from Camp Pope, in July, to
join Pope's Army, which was always to "look before, and not behind,"
and which was to "subsist upon the country in which their operations
were carried on."
While McClellan was moving against the Capital of the Confederacy, it
was Pope's part to keep secure the Capital of the Union.