Friday, June 26, 2015

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Sunday, December 29, 1861

Camp Union, Fayetteville, Virginia. — Major Comly (J. M.) with five companies marched today to occupy Raleigh twenty-five miles south of here. Companies F and G, Twenty-third, two companies of Thirtieth, and one company, Twenty-sixth. Weather, bright and clear; ground, frozen hard; roads, good. Success attend them! Company inspection.

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 170-1

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