Laid out Company streets and had the men police; got a man
to build me a chimney; don't smoke; am feeling better; men in better spirits,
but anxious to go to their regiments; have had forty men turned over to my
command without tents, overcoats or blankets; had an interesting, good man
report belonging to the Fourth N. J. Infantry, who can help me, and I like him;
don't like being commanding officer and everything else, though; too much to do
to look after a regiment of men without even a clerk. But they are good, and
seem to like to be with me, for they are all the time wanting to do something
for me — probably because I try to make them comfortable.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 238
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