No signs of Jenkins last night. Heard cannon firing down
Kanawha and got ready some rail barricades under direction of Colonel Ewing —
rather shabby affairs; could see it gave confidence to men. Ordered back to
Fayetteville; returned at dark.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 149
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