As I expected the army has commenced another flank movement
to the left. We were ordered to hold the line until 11 o'clock then withdraw
quietly and overtake the balance of the army. Goodness! I wonder if we are
always to be rear guard? It's worrying, besides, we have to march so rapidly,
such duty should be passed round. We crossed the North Anna about three miles
below Noles Station. It has been terrible marching the roads are so blocked
with army supply wagons or trains — however we have made a thirty-mile march
and find ourselves near the ford at Hanover Court House. The men stood the
march well for we are on the road to Richmond. Goodness! but I'm tired.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 66
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