As beautiful a morning as I ever saw; men are feeling better
since they drew rations; had been without two days; heavy skirmishing in front.
Our artillery shelled the enemy out of its first line of works about noon. We
moved up and occupied them without difficulty; enemy has made several useless
attempts to shell us but have done no harm. Our own batteries have been
shelling the enemy over us, but have wounded more of our men than the enemy.
The Tenth Vermont is on the skirmish line to-night. Today's experience when our
batteries threw shells over us at the enemy and hurt so many of our men was the
most exasperating of the campaign. Such stupidity ought to be punished, as the
artillerymen could plainly see that their shells were exploding close over us
and several hundred yards short of the enemy.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 68-9
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