Weather quite warm all day; about 9 o'clock a. m. changed
positions to the left; remained till night, and then moved still further to the
left and finally camped for the night. A part of the regiment has gone on
picket. I am not going; no news to-day. I have been thinking quite seriously
that I will go home this winter and fit myself for a profession — not that I am
getting tired of military life but think it for my interests in the long run;
am undecided what I will do. I don't believe I shall be a quitter, though, for
I am not weak that way. No patriot resigns in the face of the enemy when his
country needs his services.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 83
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