It has been very quiet along the lines all day; both sides
seem to be tired of sharpshooting. Another flag of truce was sent out to-day, I
think to get permission to bury our dead between the lines of which there are many
plainly to be seen and they are commencing to smell bad; am told Major
Crandall of the Sixth Vermont, just to the right of us, was shot to-day by a
sharpshooter. He was a popular student once at Barre Academy, Vermont. Captain
Edwin Dillingham reported for duty to-day; has been prisoner of war at Richmond
since the battle of Locust Grove, Va. last fall; never saw him looking better;
is a handsome man, anyway, and a gentleman. Our army seems to be lying idle now,
except the heavy artillery which is building forts in our rear; occasionally
hear the report of siege guns to our left — or we suppose them to be siege guns.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 77-8
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