We were ordered to be in readiness to march at 4 o'clock
this morning, but did not start till near 9 o'clock a. m.; marched until about
11 o'clock a. m., and encamped about three miles from the North Anna river;
heavy artillery firing heard in the direction of the river; have not heard the
result; very warm all day, but the men bear the heat grandly. General
Longstreet's Corps is only about three miles ahead of us from which it would
seem we are chasing him — anyway, have captured many of his stragglers. It's
intensely hot.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 64
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