Camp No. 5, Princeton. — A fine day. The cavalry
yesterday took the Bluff Road and came into [the] road from Princeton to Giles
five miles. They came across tracks leading to Princeton. Soon saw
soldiers, opened fire and had a fusillade of wild firing, the enemy fleeing to
the mountains. It was the Forty-fifth Virginia coming to reinforce Princeton.
Slightly “too late.” Spent A. M. organizing detachment of occupation.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 2 40
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