Flat Top Mountain. — Warm and dry; getting dusty!!
Mr. French lies here wounded — his thigh bone shattered by a ball that passed
clear through his leg. Dr. McCurdy thinks he will not survive more than three
or four weeks. . . . Our regiment elected him chaplain a week or two ago to
date from the day of battle, May 1, 1862. I hope the Governor will commission
[him] promptly. . . .
The Commercial is reported as saying that people may “act
as if they had heard some very good news” from General Halleck's army.
It is dusty!! A cold wind blowing. The plan of going to
Packs Ferry and crossing New River, uniting with Colonel Crook, and thence
through Union to Christiansburg, is not yet fixed upon.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 276-7
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