To-day has been sweltering hot. We lay in our works until
about dark when a part of our regiment was ordered for picket. I am not
detailed this time. Lieutenants Merritt Barber and George E. Davis, Tenth
Vermont, reported for duty this afternoon. Lieutenant-Colonel W. W. Henry's
commission as Colonel Tenth Vermont came, also Major C. G. Chandler's as
Lieutenant-Colonel. Captain Samuel Darrah was shot through the head this
afternoon by a sharpshooter while sitting by his Company, and died at 2 o'clock
p. m. His remains will be sent to Vermont. He was my captain and I am very
sorry for his untimely end. He was a brave little fellow, jolly, clever and
kind, always full of life and will be greatly missed. A flag of truce was sent
out in front of our division to-day; don't know what it was for; has been quiet
all day; men all burrowed under bomb-proof covers. We sunk big square holes in
the ground about two feet deep large enough to hold about eight or more men,
and roofed them with logs, brush and dirt, but it's very warm to have to live
so. It's fine, though, when bombs are bursting which they often do.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 77
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