Major Dillingham, with a detachment of the Eighty-seventh
Pennsylvania, went through on the train tonight to Washington to open the
railroad. There is no truth in the report that the road was torn up. We took
the cars at the Relay House at 11 o'clock a. m. and arrived in Washington at 3
o'clock p. m. The excitement has mostly subsided in the city. The rest of our
Corps is reported at Poolesville, Md. We stay in Washington to-night.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 121-2
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