Well, the papers begin to speak encouragingly, and
reinforcements are rapidly being sent Grant and Thomas. We have got but few
yet, but rumor says that six hundred left Vermont on the seventh of September
for our regiment. It's cloudy and there's a chilly south wind. It threatens
rain. McClellan's party is demanding a new candidate. Well, let it have one, it
will be all the better for Mr. Lincoln. All's quiet to-night.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 147
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