Camp Flat Top Mountain. — Bright, clear, and bracing.
My cold no better yet, but no worse. I hope it has reached the turning-point.
All suspense in military matters, awaiting result at Corinth and Richmond. The
three Companies, A, E, and K of Twenty-third, sent to Packs Ferry were ordered
in yesterday, as if much needed. They marched in the rain and darkness
seventeen miles last night and six this morning; the severest trial they have
had. It was too bad, too bad.
Sacred music by the band at sundown. Captain Evans, a
Cincinnati boy of [the] Thirty-fourth Zouaves, called to see me. Queer people
meet here. The Thirty-seventh and the Thirty-fourth (Zouaves) suffered badly in
the skirmishing about Princeton. About sixty wounded (of ours) came up tonight,
having been exchanged, from Princeton.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 278
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