It's a delightful evening; has been pleasant all day. There
was battalion and company drill this forenoon and afternoon respectively.
Extracts from the Richmond Examiner and other Southern journals state that
Lee's army about Richmond is in terrible condition, is living on half rations,
clothes worn out and no prospect of getting more. It has got so they have to
use negroes to transport supplies, etc. I wouldn't blame that army for changing
its politics or anything else to get out of the scrape it's in.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 148-9
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