Rain begins at guard-mounting. A year ago today Sumter was
taken. Great events, great changes, since then. The South was eager, prepared, “armed
and equipped.” The event found the North distracted, undecided, unarmed, wholly
unprepared, and helpless. Then came the rousing up of the lion-hearted people
of the North. For months, however, the superior preparation of the South
triumphed. Gradually the North, the Nation, got ready; and now the victory over
Beauregard and [that] at [Island] Number 10, following Fort Donelson, put the
Nation on firm ground, while the Rebellion is waning daily. Tonight received Commercial
of the 10th, with pretty full accounts of the great battles.
Captain Haven and Lieutenant Bacon, Companies G and K,
marched seventy miles on their late scout into Monroe. Scout Jackson, Company
B, gone one week today toward Logan. I hope he is all right.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 228
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