It has snowed nearly all day, but not very hard. To-night
there is about two inches on the ground and it is still snowing. Lieut. Stetson
started for Vermont this morning on the 9:30 train, and Capt. H. R. Steele
arrived from there this evening. I am told to-night that Colonel Embic of the
One Hundred and Sixth New York Infantry has been reinstated. We have formed a
quiz school to-night, the members being Dr. Almon Clark, Lieuts. E. P. Farr and
C. G. Newton and Chaplain E. M. Haynes. We are to meet every night and ask
questions on geography, history, etc. I think it a grand idea. I suspect they
think me fresh from school, though, and want me to do most of the quizzing, the
same as in the class of about seventy-five enlisted men in tactics and English
branches which recites to me daily now, fitting for examination for commission
in colored troops.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 3
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