Journal of Horace St. Paul
1757: Advance Astride the Neisse

Part 7: September 28, 1757

Translated and Edited
With Additional Materials By Neil Cogswell


At 7 o'clock this morning, the army broke camp and prepared to march by wings in four columns.

ORDER OF MARCH

The 1st Column, composed of all the cavalry of the Right Wing with Regiment Archduke Joseph leading, took the road through Seifersdorf and Wantgen, from whence it entered its new camp.

The 2nd Column comprised the infantry of the Right Wing of the First Line - Regiment Lothringen at the head. They marched through Kreimeck and then along the highroad through Damm-Kretscham and Nieder-Kummernick before entering camp.

The 3rd Column, formed of the infantry of the Left Wing led by Regiment Wurzburg, took the road through Klemmerwitz and Rosenig. It then entered camp near Kummernick.

Cuirassier Regiment Schmerzing led the 4h Column, comprising the cavalry of the Left Wing, across the fields as far as Kunzendorf. From there, it followed the Breslau road and crossed to the right bank of the Leisebach. It then entered camp near Kummernick.

The artillery followed the 2nd Column. Headquarters are established at Royn.

The Prussian army had detached a corps towards Leschwitz. Seeing the arrival there of the Austrian light troops and the Corps of Grenadiers under the orders of General Sprecher, they recoiled back onto the Duke of Bevern. The Prussians then crossed the Oder below Dieban on five bridges that they had thrown across that river. Several Prussian troops had remained in the small town of Parchwitz, but the Croats, presenting themselves before that place, obliged them to abandon their position.

The Austrian hussars have reached the Oder, where they took two large vessels carrying 240 tons of salt.

The Corps of General Nadasdy, with which 6,000 Bavarians have united themselves, marched yesterday to Ingamsdorf. Today they have gone on as far as Zobten.

The army received the order to he ready to march tomorrow.

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