Quite comfortable all day. Lieut. G. E. Davis has completed
the Muster and Pay rolls, but I've not felt very well and have been abed all
day. Captain G. W. Burnell, formerly Second Lieutenant, Tenth Vermont, has been
with us to-day; he's about the same old chap, but I don't think he has a very
high opinion of colored troops, either. It's reported the enemy is making a
raid into Maryland with General Jubal A. Early in command. I have been
expecting this. They will doubtless make us much trouble, but they can't
checkmate Grant in that way; he has too many men. He won't budge from here — never
— until he takes Petersburg which means Richmond, too. Up to this time our
First Brigade has lost in killed, wounded, etc., over eight hundred men since
we broke winter camp.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 93
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