Marched for Frederick at 5 o'clock a. m.; dusty and hot;
arrived at 9 o'clock a. m.; camped in a shady grove; Chambersburg reported
burnt by the enemy because it couldn't or wouldn't meet a levy by McCausland of
$500,000 in currency; also that Grant has blown up a sixteen-gun battery and
taken one complete line of works; have been mustered today; took command of
Company E as First Lieutenant of that Company.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 129
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