Quite warm, but a fairly cool breeze. The First and Second
Divisions of our Corps worked all night destroying the railroad and are at it
now, our forces having burnt the depot; have made thorough work of it; think it
must have been quite a business place here once, but it is now a mass of ruins.
Our division has been building breastworks; had just got them nicely completed
when we were ordered back late in the day to our old position as we supposed,
but 9 o'clock p. m. finds us in camp for the night two miles from there.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 91
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