Well, here it is the first day of July! Who would think it?
We have been fighting two months, and the time (July 4th), set by thousands for
the downfall of the Confederate capital is close at hand, yet it cannot be
taken by that time. Still I have no doubt there are thousands at the North who
are expecting to hear of its capture, and perhaps many who are foolish enough
to believe that it will surely fall on July 4th. I have no doubt but what it
will fall before another summer, but it will take time and hard fighting, and
many a poor fellow on both sides will bite the dust first; wonder if all think
of this? Many never think of anything till it happens, they are too selfish;
remained all day in the position we took up last night, but just at night we
moved a quarter of a mile to the front and formed line of battle.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 91-2
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