Ditto. — I rode today with Captain Gilmore and Avery
to the mouth of Bluestone and a ford on New River. The pickets are so placed
that an enterprising enemy would by crossing New River and passing by mountain
paths to their rear, cut them off completely.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 302
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