It has been an anxious morning for me; went over to Sandy
Hook and waited until 11 o'clock a. m. when the clerk handed me my leave, and I
must say, I felt like a new man. I hurried back to Harper's Ferry and found Mr.
Hicks there in search of his brother Lieut. John Hicks of my regiment, who was
wounded in the thigh at Fisher's Hill. I waited until 4 o'clock p. m. and took
the cars for Baltimore, but the train was delayed and it did not arrive there
till 2 o'clock a. m. Sept. 29.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 214
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