Camp Union – Inspection
day. Good weather until dark when a rain “set in.” Had a review and inspection.
Satisfactory. Cannon firing with a new brass six-pounder, cast by Greenwood.
First two shots four hundred and fifty yards, plumb in line, two and one-half
feet below the centre of the target. At parade, had practice in musket firing —
six rounds — eight hundred shots. Put one hundred and fifty-four balls in a
board five feet high by twenty inches broad — one hundred yards. Very good. A
jolly evening. Read the letters in the 27th and 28th Commercials to
Avery, Bottsford, Captain Moore, Dr. Webb, etc.; then a talk and laugh at
campaign jokes. Colonel Scammon returned from Raleigh; thinks the mud too deep
for forward movements for a month or six weeks.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 197
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