Well, I am a nine
months' man! Good (?) I went into General Stevenson's headquarters and found
the Tenth Vermont was at Petersburg. He ordered me to report to Col. Hunter
commanding Camp Distribution at Harper's Ferry; was ordered to take command of
the Twentieth Company, Sixth Corps — about 200 men; have got to receipt for
clothing, camp equipage, etc.; don't like it, but have to obey orders. The camp
is on a barren, bleak side hill long used for such a purpose, and it is cold,
windy and dirty with a great deal of dust. I don't like the prospect.
SOURCE: Lemuel
Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections and Civil War Diary, 1864, p.
236
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