The enemy made two unsuccessful assaults last night.
Reinforcements are arriving rapidly. The rain yesterday and this afternoon has
greatly cooled the air. There has been considerable cannonading on both sides
and heavy skirmishing all day. The lines of battle in our immediate front are
only about eight hundred yards apart and the skirmish lines are very near
each other. The One Hundred and Sixth New York Volunteer Infantry, our favorite
fighting companion as a regiment, are digging another line of rifle pits in our
front for the pickets. I got a letter from Captain H. R. Steele this afternoon.
General Grant issued an order to-day for the army to act on the defensive.
Good!
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 75-6
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