It was fair until 5 o'clock p. m. when it sprinkled slightly
and prevented dress parade. We had battalion drill this forenoon and Company
drill this afternoon. The Commissary came up this forenoon, too, with rations.
We have received a large mail. All well at home. The Second Division of the
Sixth Corps and a brigade of cavalry made a reconnoissance to-day toward
Opequan Creek where the Vermont Brigade skirmishers located the enemy just
beyond Opequan Creek with its line facing east, its right flank resting on the
Berryville pike and its left on the Martinsburg pike with Winchester in its
rear. Our armies are about six miles apart.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 148
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