Ordered to make a forced march, without tents, knapsacks, or
cooking utensils, to French Creek by a mountain path scarcely practicable for
horsemen. At about 3 P. M. set out. I led the column afoot, Captain Sperry on
Webby. Reached a river over the mountain after dark; kindled fires and slept on
ground. Thirteen miles.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 80
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