Camp Green [Meadows].
— Struck tents this morning on Flat Top at 5 A. M. and marched to
this place, reaching here at 11:30 A. M., fourteen miles; a jolly march
down the mountain under a hot sun. Many sore feet Band played its lively airs;
the men cheered, and all enjoyed the change. We are east of Camp Jones and
about three miles from the mouth of Bluestone River and New River, within six
miles of camp at Packs Ferry on New River. The camp being one thousand to fifteen
hundred feet lower than Flat Top is warmer. We shall learn how to bear summer
weather here. Our waggons arrived about 6:30 P. M. We relieved here two
companies of the Thirtieth under Captain Gross. I command here six companies
Twenty-third, Captain Gilmore's Cavalry, a squad of Second Virginia, a squad of
McMullen's Battery, and a squad on picket of Captain Harrison's Cavalry.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 301-2
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