Our army's line is about five miles long this morning and
runs northwest by southeast. General Hancock occupies the right followed by
General Warren, Generals Sedgwick and Burnside in the order mentioned. Our
batteries have been shelling the enemy fiercely all day and this evening, but
the heaviest fighting seems to be on our left. Our regiment was terribly shelled
when supporting batteries which has been all day. We were ordered to lie flat
on the ground in one instant and there's no doubt but what we did for the
ground was a dead level and the shells whistled and shrieked very thickly and
closely over us. It was terribly nerve-trying. The Johnnies didn't want
to see us bad enough though, to come over and call. We could see many dead
between the lines in our front a little to the left of where we supported a
battery this morning, of both armies, as a result of the assault last night. It
is a shocking sight, but such is war.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 51-2
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