Cloudy, with a bracing air; have thrown up a line of rifle
pits along our front. The army is quiet to-day; very little cannonading heard.
Divine services were held in nearly every regiment in the Brigade; wrote to
Pert this forenoon. The Sixth Corps is encamped on as beautiful a plantation as
I ever saw. It seems a pity to spoil such finely laid out grounds, but such is
war. The whole Division got ready to move about 6 o'clock a. m. but as the
enemy remained quiet we did. There's no picket firing to-night. I'm so tired
and lousy I do wish we could stay somewhere long enough to wash and boil our
underclothing. However, the general officers are as lousy as the rest of us for
lice in war times know no caste. I saw a General lousing to-day. I hope this
won't shock anyone when they read it after I have passed along. It's a part of
the history of the civil war though, and should be recorded.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 60-1
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