Clear and cold but no wind; started for picket at 9 a. m.;
arrived on the line at 1 p. m. A part of our detail having through mistake to
go to Pony Mountain, has returned this evening, and consequently I have had to
move my headquarters up the line; am near Mrs. Battles, historic because of
Union officers' escapades there. The house being between the lines the women
connived in trying to get them captured; countersign is “Perth.”
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 18
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