Very warm and dry again this morning. General H. G. Wright,
our corps commander, had an inspection and review at 7 o'clock this morning. It
seemed so strange to be called out again for parade I hardly knew how to act.
But what seems strange is that they should commence this thing when the men are
all tired out. They need a day's rest more than anything else. I do wish they
would consider the welfare of the men more. Well, here we are again! have
marched all afternoon and turned up at Reames Station on the Weldon railroad;
didn't know but what we were marching round to go into the back door of
Petersburg or Richmond. I'm half dead with fatigue.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 90-1
No comments:
Post a Comment