Thursday, April 21, 2016

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Saturday, February 13, 1864

Clear and warm with no wind, and by far the finest day of the month yet. Captain H. R. Steele came along this morning and took a part of Companies B and G for the reserve thus leaving me in charge of only five posts; wonder what he's afraid of? Have received our mail, but none for me. All's quiet on the line to-night; countersign “Bristeau.”

SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 18

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