Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Tuesday, February 16, 1864

Cloudy with a furious wind — in fact one of the most terrific gales of the winter — so piercing it's impossible to keep warm in our huts; have called on Mrs. G. E. Davis and Mrs. Ezra Stetson. All hands have been to prayer meeting this evening but me, and I have been studying; am stopping with Captain Samuel Darrah now; wind still high.

SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 19