Our Division was ordered to move to City Point at daylight
to take transports for Baltimore, Md., and thence by rail to Harper's Ferry,
Md., or vicinity. I said we'd move shortly when ordered to fix camp on the
second of July. We arrived at City Point about 3 o'clock p. m. after a hot
dusty march and much suffering, and sailed about 4 o'clock p. m. It's quick
work to load a boat in an hour, but Grant was there. The contrast from marching
through sand ankle deep as dry as an ash heap with the air so thick with dust
one a few steps away is invisible, and being on the cool river is a great
transformation we much appreciate — Hallelujah!
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 93-4
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