This has been the warmest day yet this summer, and no sign
of rain. We remained in line all day without intrenching when the enemy began
to make quite a demonstration on our left. We threw up rifle pits but our
division was so far in advance of the other two of our Corps, the rebs had a
cross fire on us. Our skirmishers have been on the Weldon railroad most of the
day until finally the First Division of our Corps began to destroy the track.
It had only just begun when the force sent from the Vermont Brigade and the
Eighty-seventh Pennsylvania of our brigade to protect it, were attacked,
surrounded and about five hundred, including four officers and seventy-nine
enlisted men from the Eighty-seventh, were either killed or taken prisoners.
The Eighty-seventh had twenty-six killed and wounded. After this we all retired
to the line occupied by us on the 21st of June.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 87-8
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