We arrived at Point of Rocks at 1 o'clock a. m., marched
about three miles, got coffee and joined our brigade in General B. F. Butler's
breastworks at the front; have been idle all day. About dark our skirmish line
was driven in, and our regiment was sent out to support the line until
reestablished, but as they could not succeed in this we withdrew and went back
to camp. We expected to have to assault the enemy's formidable fortifications,
and were greatly relieved when we were withdrawn. General H. G. Wright opposed
General Butler in an assault on the enemy's works here and won his point, it is
said.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 84
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