Camp Jones. — A fine breezy day on this mountain top.
Bathed three miles from here in Glade Creek. I find this sitting still or
advancing age (good joke!) is getting me into old gentlemen's habits. My breath
is shorter than it used to be; I get tired easier and the like.
Very little additional from Richmond, but that little is
encouraging. Our forces have not, I think, been discouraged or in any degree
lost confidence, by reason of anything that has occurred before Richmond. Our
losses are not greater than the enemy's — probably not so great. The Rebel
reports here are that our loss is thirty-eight thousand killed and wounded and
two thousand prisoners; that they left fourteen thousand dead on the
field! This is all wild guessing; but it indicates dreadful and probably nearly
equal losses on both sides.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 299
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