Camp Ewing. — Six hundred and fifty-seven present for
duty; sixty-nine sick. Total strength nine hundred and thirty-six. Absent one
hundred and ninety-three — all sick but about forty on detached service.
Captain Woodward worse and in great danger. Enemy firing again on McCook's
camp. No casualties at 10:30 o'clock.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 138
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