We were ordered to withdraw our line this morning at 3
o'clock which we did without difficulty; found our Corps had gone to the
extreme right of the line to reinforce the Second Corps, quite a little brush
having occurred between it and the enemy this morning which was repulsed and
driven back into the valley; occupy the same ground we did yesterday; have
orders to march in the morning at daylight; another mail came this evening;
all's quiet. Perly Farrer was killed to-day on the skirmish line. He was a good
boy, a member of my old Company B, of which I am so proud and fond. His remains
will be numbered with the unknown dead, as it will be impossible to send them
north now. He was a brave man and died manfully doing his whole duty. We can't
even reach his body now.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 62
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