I worked a fatigue party on a fort all night arriving in
camp about 5 o'clock a. m. tired and hungry; slept until about 6 o'clock p. m.
when we were ordered to march. We moved out on the Jerusalem plank road to
where our cavalry were skirmishing on the ground to the left of our army which
we were expected to occupy, and halted about 9 o'clock p. m. Although it was
dark we threw out a skirmish line, forced the enemy back, captured several
prisoners, camped and commenced to throw up breastworks having joined our line
with the Second Corps on our right. The First, Second and Third Divisions,
Sixth Corps, in the order mentioned from the right now form the left of our
army. General Grant is simply extending his line to the left. Colonel W. W.
Henry took command of the regiment last night. I have received a letter from
Lieutenant G. E. Davis at Annapolis; is doing well. The One Hundred and Sixth
New York captured a Johnny to-night under singular circumstances but I've not
room to relate them.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 86
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