A cool comfortable day; laid out Company streets this
forenoon and everything looks as though we were to remain in camp several days.
Torbet's cavalry has been engaged all day, but was driven back about 4 o'clock
when our Division was sent out to support it. The enemy fell back as soon as
they discovered our infantry. We followed the rebs about five miles, returned
about half way to camp, and Bivouacked. There's good news from Grant's army
to-night. We await anxiously for the returns from the Chicago convention.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 141
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