“New Orleans,” “The Union — it must and shall be preserved,”
“Old Hickory forever.” These are the watchwords of today. This is our coldest
day — clear, bright, and beautiful. Not over three inches of snow.
Rode with Adjutant Avery and two dragoons to Raleigh,
twenty-four miles. A cold but not disagreeable day. The village of Raleigh is
about ten to twelve years old; three or four hundred inhabitants may have lived
there before the war; now six or eight families. Two churches, two taverns, two
stores, etc., etc., in peaceful times. Our troops housed comfortably but too
scattered, and too little attention to cleanliness. (Mem.: — Cooking ought never to be allowed in quarters.)
I fear proper arrangements for repelling an attack have not been made.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 182
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