A dull and miserable day, but no rain; have been studying
very hard in the second volume of tactics. No one has been in this evening save
Lieut. George P. Welch who has notified me I am detailed for picket to-morrow.
It is not my turn and is a great disappointment as I have laid my plans to
accomplish a good week's work, and had this not happened, I could have sent in
my application next week to appear before General Silas Casey's board in
Washington for examination for a commission in colored troops. I want to be a
field officer and won't accept anything else.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 14
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