Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Monday, January 6, 1862

Snow on the ground. Rainy and blustering — turning into a big fall of snow soon after noon.  . . . A big snow-storm — wind whistling in its wintriest way. Not so severe as the northwest storms of the lake shore, but respectable.

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 179