Very warm all day; sharpshooters keep pecking away at us but
don't accomplish much. Occasionally a shell has been thrown by each side all
day; enemy seems to throw shells oftener at night; shall be glad when we are
out of range of the enemy's sharpshooters for one. It's not comfortable to be
shot at every time one shows himself in daylight; have been writing letters
to-day, one to Pert and another to Susan Wheeler; enemy shelling quite lively
to-night, but shells all go over us and explode far in our rear among the
camp-followers and hospitals where it is said to be more dangerous than here at
the front, they suffer greatly from shells there.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 78-9
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