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Cdv of 1st Lt Absalom S. Dial, 85th Pennsylvania Infantry, wounded in action at Strawberry Plains, Va. on August 16th, 1864. Boldly signed on the verso in period ink.
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* Pvt. Absalom S. Dial, Co. B, 85th Pennsylvania Infantry 1st Brigade, 1st Div., X Corps Promoted 2nd Lt. 4 Aug 1862 Promoted 1st Lt. 4 Dec 1862 Wounded at Strawberry Plains, VA, 16 Aug 1864 Mustered out with company, 22 Nov 1864 Duty in the Defences of Washington, D. C., till March, 1862. Advance on Manassas, Va., March 10-15. Moved to the Peninsula March 28. Siege of Yorktown April 5-May 4. Battle of Williamsburg May 5. Reconnaissance to Seven Pines May 24-27. Skirmishes at Seven Pines, Savage Station and Chickahominy May 24. Seven Pines May 29. Battle of Seven Pines, Fair Oaks, May 31-June 1. Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1. Brackett's June 30. Malvern Hill July 1. At Harrison's Landing till August 16. Moved to Fortress Monroe August 16-23, thence to Suffolk September 18, and duty there till December. Reconnaissance to Franklin on the Blackwater October 3. Ordered to New Berne, N. C., December 4. Foster's Expedition to Goldsboro December 10-21. Southwest Creek December 13-14. Kinston December 14. Whitehall December 16. Goldsboro December 17. Duty at New Berne, N. C., till January, 1863. Moved to Port Royal, S. C., January 28-31. At St. Helena Island, S. C., till April. At Folly Island, S. C., till July. Attack on Morris Island July 10. Assaults on Fort Sumter, Morris, Island, S. C., July 11 and 18. Siege of Forts Sumter and Gregg, Morris Island, and operations against Fort Sumpter and Charleston July 18-September 7. Duty on Morris and Folly Islands operating against Charleston till December. Moved to Hilton Head, S. C., and duty there till April, 1864. Expedition to Whitmarsh Island, Ga., February 22. Moved to Gloucester Point, Va., April. Butler's operations on south side of James River and against Petersburg and Richmond May 4-23. Ware Bottom Church May 9. Swift Creek or Arrowfield Church May 9-10. Proctor's Creek and operations against Fort Darling May 12-16. Battle of Drewry's Bluff May 14-16. Operations on Bermuda Hundred front May 17-30. Ware Bottom Church May 20. Port Walthal June 16-17. Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond June 16 to November 22, 1864. Ware Bottom Church June 20. Demonstration on north side of the James at Deep Bottom August 13-20. Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom, August 14-18. Chaffin's Farm, New Market Heights, September 28-30. Darbytown Road October 7. Battle of Fair Oaks October 27-28. Mustered out November 22, 1864. Veterans and Recruits transferred to 188th Pennsylvania Infantry.