O, what a delightful morning! And the scenery here about
Harper's Ferry is so grand that it makes it all the more enjoyable. Of course,
I awoke in fine spirits for how could I help it? I thought I was to start for
home at 1 o'clock p. m. but on going to the hospital, I found that my leave had
not been sent over for approval therefore I can't go until tomorrow. The wagon
train has started for the front again. I am sure I shall start for Vermont
tomorrow. Sometimes I almost think it would be a good thing if some of the
Adjutants General could be wounded, too, perhaps they would see to it then that
wounded men's applications for leave to go home were not delayed.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 214
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