——— By MAJOR LEMUEL ABIJAH ABBOTT, U. S. A. Late Captain 10th Regt. Vt. Vol. Infantry —————— BURLINGTON: FREE PRESS PRINTING CO. PRINTERS, BINDERS, STATIONERS. 1908. DEDICATION. TO THE PATRIOTS AND COMRADES OF ONE OF VERMONT'S MOST GALLANT REGIMENTS, THE TENTH VERMONT VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. MAY ITS STATE PRIDE, FIDELITY, esprit de corps AND SPLENDID RECORD IN THE CIVIL WAR SERVE AS AN EXAMPLE AND INSPIRATION TO COMING GENERATIONS....

The following Diary covering the interesting period of the Civil War from January 1, to December 31, 1864, and a portion of 1865 to the surrender of General R. E. Lee at Appomattox Court House, Va., was kept by the Author at the age of twenty-two when an officer of the Tenth Regiment Vermont Volunteer Infantry, Third and First Brigade, Third Division, Third and Sixth Corps respectively, Army of the Potomac, and is a brief war history as seen by a young soldier literally from the front line of ba

Besides the usual abbreviations of States and months, and those commonly used for dispatch in writing and economy of space, the following are made use of in this work:— CIVIL WAR DIARY [1] AND PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS 1864 ——— In Winter Quarters , Near Brandy Station, Va. , Friday , Jan. 1, 1864. Although attached to Company B, Tenth Regiment Vermont Volunteer Infantry, (Capt. Edwin Dillingham's of Waterbury, Vt.), Lieut. Ezra Stetson commanding, I am Second Lieutenant of Company D (Capt. Samuel D

This was the real christening fight of the regiment, and was badly managed. In the assault on greatly superior numbers, the brigade was marched in line of battle in quick time through the forest which was fiercely shelled, as though at drill, the men not breaking—at least not in the Tenth Vermont—until within about seventy-five yards of the enemy's unusually strong and favorably posted skirmish line behind a very high rail fence in the edge of a large cleared field in the midst of the forest, a

I was absent wounded in Vermont at the time of the battle of Cedar Creek, Va., and only know that my regiment fought desperately and lost heavily in killed and wounded. Captain Lucian D. Thompson of Waterbury, Vt., was decapitated by a solid shot from the enemy and Captain Chester F. Nye, Adjutant Wyllys Lyman and Lieutenants George E. Davis, B. Brooks Clark, Austin W. Fuller and George P. Welch were wounded. From June 1st to October 19, 1864, we had seven officers killed which included all the

This memorable siege extending over a period of several months, was full of exciting, eventful fights, but none more so than the final assault on the main works, April 2, 1865. For three nights the Sixth Corps, which had been selected by General Grant to break the main line of the formidable-looking fortifications in and near its front to its left, around Petersburg, because of its known reliability for any work assigned it, had been ordered out between the lines as noiselessly as possible about

The following congratulatory address by General Custer to his men at the close of the Civil War is supplied by Hon. A. H. Farnam, President of one of the largest Mill Companies of Aberdeen, Washington, who served with Custer's Cavalry with credit which served with the Sixth Corps at the battle of Winchester, Va., Sept. 19, 1864, and in other battles, is of interest: Appomattox Court House, Va., April 9th, 1865. Headquarters Third Cavalry Division. Soldiers of the Third Cavalry Division:— With pr

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Abbott, L. A., Maj. U. S. A., care of Mil. Sec. U. S. A., Washington, D. C. Aiken, Hiram, Co. A, Cabot, Vt. Allen, Harvey H., Co. E, Bennington, Vt. Apple, Conrad, Co. E, Leadville, Colorado. Atwater, Alonzo, Co. C, Weston, Vt. Atwood, Corp. J. B., Co. I, Chelsea, Vt. Ayers, Lieut. J., Co. B, Stowe, Vt. Bailey, George, Co. A, Goss Hollow, Vt. Bailey, Jacob, Co. A, West Plymouth, N. H., R. F. D. No. 1, Box 38. Bailey, Henry J., Co. A, Lyndon, Vt. Bailey, William H., Co. F, Enosburg Falls, Vt. Ban

Black, J. A., Co. K, d. 715 E. 7th St., Erie, Pa., wid. res. there. Bond, T. C., Co. H, d. Apr. 19, 1905. Boutwell, A. C., Co. G, d. Rutland, Vt, wid. res. there. Chatfield, B. G., Co. G., d. in Lowell, Mass. Clark, Dr. Almon, d. in Milwaukee, Wis. Colby, E. C., Co. I, d. in Waterbury, Ct., wid. res. Springfield, Mass. Eaton, A. F., Co. H, d. in Ludlow, Vt. Emery, George A., Co. G, d. in Somerville, Mass. Freeman, Dr. D. B., Co. G, d. in Bethel, Vt., wid. res. there. Gassett, Oscar, Co. H, d. in