Marched about eight miles in a westerly direction through a
fine-looking, well-improved region. Men very jolly. All came in together, “well
closed up,” at night. Major Comly sent with five companies to Seneca Bridge,
three-fourths mile west of camp, to “hold it.” Kelly, Company A, a witty
Dutch-Irishman, kept up a fusillade of odd jokes in English German. The men
cheered the ladies, — joked with the cuffys, and carried on generally.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 349
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