This is the anniversary of our muster into the U. S. service
at Brattleboro, Vt, 1862. Thus far, as a regiment, we have been prospered. God
grant that we may continue to be, and that as many as is consistent with His
will, may be allowed to pass one more year if necessary in the service, and
then be returned home happy, feeling that we have endeavored to do our duty as
soldiers faithfully to our country and our God; have completed two more rolls;
shall try and finish the other in the morning; all's quiet in front.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 142
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