In Winter Quarters,
Near Brandy Station, Va.,
Friday, Jan. 1, 1864.
Although attached to Company B, Tenth Regiment Vermont
Volunteer Infantry, (Capt. Edwin Dillingham's of Waterbury, Vt), Lieut. Ezra Stetson
commanding, I am Second Lieutenant of Company D (Capt. Samuel Darrah's of
Burlington, Vt.) of the same regiment, having been promoted from First Sergeant
of Company B last spring.
All are wishing me a “Happy New Year”! God grant that I may
have one. I was awakened long before daylight by the band serenading the birth
of the New Year. Lieut. G. W. Burnell took his departure early this morning for
Washington, D. C.; he has been promoted Captain of U. S. Colored Troops and is
about to take up other duties in Baltimore, Md. It was quite pleasant early in
the day but it is very muddy under foot; had a grand New Year's dinner. There
has been a very cold wind this afternoon. This evening it is clear and
intensely cold. Will Clark has made me a short call; am feeling very well but
studying hard.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 1-2
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