Very warm and sultry until about 5 o'clock p. m. when quite
a hard thunder-storm come up and cooled off the air; remained in our breastworks
until about 4 o'clock p. m. when the first line was abandoned for the second
where we remained about an hour when all withdrew. Our Division was in rear and
had not gone more than twenty-five rods from our works when the rebs charged on
our picket line but without effect in our front, except to make us double quick
back and reoccupy our intrenchments where we remained about two hours then
quietly withdrew and marched all night. It's been a worrying day. Since the
fourteenth we've done nothing but march and countermarch and change about.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 63
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