Fine day. Several regiments have passed up Pennsylvania
Avenue during the day; have been before the board; am very much pleased with
its appearance with the exception of General Silas Casey who is too old and
childish for such business. To my surprise I was asked what position I wanted,
and I replied a field office; was told the supply was more than the demand and
as officers were absorbed in the same order as passed by the board I would
never be called on. I replied that I should never accept anything but a field
office; was passed for a first class Captaincy, there being three grades,
First, Second and Third class; saw Edwin Forrest play Mattamora tonight at Ford's Theatre. It was fine.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 40
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