Diary of Brigadier-General William F. Bartlett: July 25, 1864

. . . . . General of trenches to-morrow. . . . .  Relieved Colonel Thomas, who was at Pittsfield when I went there first. He commands negro brigade. How we drift together and separate in this world!

SOURCE: Francis Winthrop Palfrey, Memoir of William Francis Bartlett, p. 116