Goodness! We traveled all night and haven't got out of sight
of our old position. Did ever anyone see such stupidity? I'm getting more
fault-finding than an old maid, but loss of sleep and shattered nerves from
being overtaxed in every way will account for it. Nature will collapse when
continually over-taxed. I'm all out of patience, but it will do no good to
mutter, so I'll stop. We relieved a portion of the Second Corps to-day; don't
know where they are going; probably some strategic movement afoot; was sent out
on picket about noon. It's not a very agreeable job to relieve the skirmish
line in daylight when the enemy is so near, yet we did it; heavy cannonading
to-night.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 79-80
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