I did not sleep much last night my wounds were so very painful.
I removed some of the old fractures or splinters of the teeth and jaws that
were left, about 3 o'clock a. m. with my fingers, and after that my face was
easier and I rested some. I started in a private wagon from Winchester at 11
o'clock a. m. for Harper's Ferry, and at dark was still on the road near
Charlestown very tired; had no scares from guerrillas; am beginning to
feel weak, having eaten nothing solid since I was wounded, but I was pretty
vigorous. The shock to my system has been greater than I was aware of, now that
the excitement is over.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 213
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