A. M. Sun shining brightly. I have hopes of weather now that
will allow us to move forward. A fine day at last! Major Comly drilled the
non-commissioned officers as a company, A. M. and P. M. I drilled the regiment
after parade. In the evening the new sutler, Mr. Forbes, brought me [a] letter
from Lucy and portrait. Dear wife, the “counterfeit presentment” is something.
Also papers of 12th. The victory at Pittsburg [Landing] was not so decisive as
I hoped. The enemy still holds Corinth, and will perhaps fight another battle
before giving it up.
Captain Bragg came in tonight, reporting a gang of
bushwhackers in his neighborhood. Would send out a company if I were not afraid
that orders to move would catch me unprepared.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 229
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