A truly beautiful
day, warm and pleasant with no wind at all; regiment moved to a new camp this
morning; most of the line officers remain here yet. The three left Companies,
B, G and K contested for the medal Major C. G. Chandler proposed giving last
winter, and B, my old Company and the one I have been with all winter, won it.
Of course it would! It always honors itself and me; got a letter from home
to-night.
SOURCE: Lemuel
Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections and Civil War Diary, 1864, p.
38
