Well, a soldier's life is a strange one to lead! I got up
about 8 o'clock a. m. received an order for inspection at 9 o'clock a. m. got
nearly ready when it commenced raining and inspection was delayed. Then before
we had inspection about 10 o'clock a. m. a lively fusilade commenced on the
pike in our front with the skirmishers; looks to me like a surprise; everybody
acts so, too; have been hustling all day to throw up rifle pits and to-night
finds us in line behind a formidable breastwork; skirmishing still continues
briskly. The Vermont brigade reestablished the skirmish line. Our brigade has
lost two men killed and eleven wounded.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 138
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