Flat Top. — A fine day. No demonstrations in camp
except a National salute and a little drunkenness. Quietness of the Sabbath
reigned.
The Commercial of the first puts a different face on
the news of McClellan's recent movements near Richmond. The change of position
seems to have been well planned — a wise change — and it is not certain that
any disaster befell us during its execution. There was fierce fighting and
heavy loss, but it is quite possible that the enemy suffered more than we did.
My orderly, Gray, good old veteran Irish soldier, “drunk and
disorderly” yesterday. All right; he shall be released today.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 296
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