Quite a comfortable day; no snow yet, but it looks likely to
storm in a day or two; wrote to Pert*, and had our usual inspection this
forenoon. Since dinner,
I have read “Washington's Farewell Address”, and the “Declaration
of Independence”. This evening quite a number of recruits arrived for the
regiment, but none for Company B. Capt. J. A. Salisbury has been in to call on
Lieut. Stetson, and broken my camp chair. This is still more provoking than not
to get a letter from home for chairs are not plentiful here. He is a big man.
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* Miss P. A. Thomson, a cousin and many years a teacher in
Goddard Seminary, Barre, Vt
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 2-3
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