We relieved the Fourteenth New Jersey from picket; all quiet
through the night; made my headquarters with the reserve in an orchard where we
got plenty of green apples, etc.; was relieved by the One Hundred and Sixth New
York after dark. On returning from picket was happily surprised to find that
preparations had been made to go into camp, and that the men of my Company had
a tent all up for me. The Company (D) generally looks after me very nicely.
This Company, too, is a splendid fighting one with me, anyway; but, as we have
been in tight places, I guess K Company has won my admiration as a valiant one
over all others, except Company B, which will follow me anywhere I lead, as it
did over the fence at Locust Grove, Va. in a plucky charge for which we never
got credit. It was only bandbox soldiers who were seen that day and mentioned
in orders.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 89-90
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