It has been very muddy and dull in camp to-day; weather dark
and gloomy: no dress parade; have written to Pert; also received a letter from
J. R. Seaver, containing a plan of the hospitals being built at Montpelier, now
nearly completed. Lieut. Fair has been in this evening and we have been
studying tactics together; guess he takes advantage of my being better posted
than he, having been a cadet at Norwich University, Norwich, Vermont, where I
was well drilled, and can explain things better. I wish they didn't consider me
the best drill in the regiment; it makes me lots of extra work and takes much
time. But I must be obliging — not mean and selfish.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 6-7
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