Have just returned from the heights. The City of Petersburg
looks lovely at a distance, but our guns command it and can at any time lay it
in ruins. The enemy occupy the heights on the other side of the Appomattox
river. Siege guns are shelling back and forth, but it's no such fighting as we
have seen since we broke winter quarters. We have remained in the woods all
day, it's been so warm. Orry Blanchard called to-night; am detailed for fatigue
— probably to work a detail on fortifications.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 85
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