Some rain. Ride with Quartermaster Reichenbach to the scene
of [the] Jumping Branch fight. Read with a good deal of levity the accounts of
John Morgan's raid into the blue-grass region of Kentucky. It strikes me that
the panic and excitement caused in Cincinnati and Indiana will stimulate
recruiting; that Secesh sentiment just beginning to grow insolent in Ohio will
be crushed out, and indirectly that it will do much good. All this is on the
assumption that Morgan is routed, captured, or destroyed before he gathers head
and becomes a power.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 307
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