It is clear and warm today. We had battalion drill again,
twice today. Not more than two hundred of the regiment are fit for duty. Major
Abercrombie, who drilled us, gave us a lecture about getting out to drill. He
assured us that the battle we just had would be classed as a skirmish in
comparison with what we would have to go through with before this war is over.
The boys declared that if he called this battle a skirmish, they would like to
know what he called a real battle.2
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2 Major Abercrombie's words were quite true, as we found out
later by experience. — A. G. D.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 44
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