Were under arms again early this morning. Colonel Foster
visited the Tenth this forenoon; is truly a fine-looking man. I have been very
busy making out final statements. The heavy musketry heard yesterday on our
left about 3 o'clock p. m. was occasioned by the enemy's making a charge on the
Nineteenth Corps. The Johnnies were repulsed with considerable loss. Rumor says
we captured one entire regiment and two stand of colors, etc. It's child's
play, though, compared to the fighting from the Rapidan to the James. I don't
believe there will be any more such fighting; it's more than human beings can
stand without one side or the other collapsing. As I look back upon it, I
marvel.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 140
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