Still rain. My horse hitched to a tree on the brow of a hill
very near my tent broke loose during the night, and, it is said, rolled down
the steep hill and swam the river. This morning he was seen trotting about in
high feather on the opposite side of the river. He was caught and brought back unhurt,
to the surprise of all who saw the place he must have gone down. Our right
wing has been sent for to return to Bulltown. Captains Drake and Woodward who
are out guerrilla hunting are still absent and not heard from for twenty-four
hours. — P. M. Still raining. Captains Drake and Woodward have returned. They
caught two of the pickets of the guerrilla party they were after but failed in
surprising them, owing to a boy who gave information of their coming. They found
a few good Union men; the mass of the people most ignorant. [They] describe the
country in the edge of Webster County as precipitous and difficult; the people
timid but cunning. They also brought two other prisoners, men who have been in
the secession army.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 64
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