It's cloudy with a gentle south breeze. We had company
inspection at 9 o'clock this forenoon and monthly at 4 o'clock this afternoon.
The supply train came at 8 o'clock a. m. with four days' rations. We got orders
at 3 o'clock p. m. to strike tents which we did, and march at once, but the
order was countermanded. We shall probably move early in the morning. There's a
high south wind this evening, but it doesn't look like rain. Sheridan's army
now consists of three infantry corps, three divisions of cavalry and the usual
complement of artillery, in all about 30,000 men, as follows; The Sixth Corps,
Major General H. G. Wright, U. S. V. commanding; the Eighth Corps,
Major-General George Crook, U. S. V. commanding; the Nineteenth Corps, Brevet
Major-General W. H. Emery commanding; Brevet Major-General A. T. A. Torbert, U.
S. V., Chief of Cavalry; the First Division of Cavalry, Brigadier-General
Wesley Merritt, U. S. V. commanding; the Second Division of Cavalry,
Brigadier-General W. W. Averell, U. S. A. commanding; and of the Third Division
of Cavalry, Brigadier-General James H. Wilson, U. S. V. commanding.
Lieutenant-General Jubal A. Early commands the Confederate army with about the
same force.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 149-50
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