Intensely warm and still; no prospect of rain; remained in
our rear line of works until about 9 o'clock a. m. when we received orders to
move out by the left flank into our first line of works. Our skirmish line has
been driven in once and probably five hundred were taken prisoners by the
enemy. This is rather discouraging but we must expect to meet with some
reverses. Rebel prisoners have been sent in to-day; they speak hopefully of
their cause, but I have no doubt but what the Union cause will
triumph.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 88
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