Rain; cooler than yesterday. Company B sent off to effect a
crossing over Piney. Ten refugees from Monroe [County], escaping [Governor]
Letcher's draft, just in. A crossing over Piney effected. Captain Haven, with
[Companies] G and K, reported to have fifteen prisoners and twenty-five horses.
Kept back by the high water. P. M. Cold and windy, but still raining. Have read
“Jack Hinton” these two gloomy days with Avery.
How pleased I am to hear from Lucy that Birtie has been a
good scholar; that at the school exhibition he was called up to speak and spoke
Logan's speech very well. . . .
Captain Drake returned tonight. Sent my money by the
paymaster to my wife. He reports that the Thirtieth Regiment is under marching
orders for this point; that the Thirty-fourth is at Fayetteville, and that a
cavalry regiment, the Second Virginia, is to form part of our brigade.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 226
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