Colonel Scammon who came down with the battery and the
Thirtieth Regiment, returned to Flat Top this A. M. The colonel is too nervous
and fussy to be a good commander. He cut around like a hen with one chicken
after getting news of our being attacked three hours or four before he started
his troops. They reached the place where they camped, twelve miles from Flat
Top, about 5 P. M. They would have got to the ferry, if at all, after dark. The
enemy could have fought a battle and escaped before aid would have come.
Lieutenants Avery and Hastings, Sergeant Abbott, Corporal
Bennett, and two privates left today on recruiting service.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 318-9
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