Left Upton's Hill at 7:30 A. M. Marched through Georgetown
and Washington to the outskirts of Washington towards Leesboro Road, a very
dusty, hot, oppressive day; Twenty-third in the rear. Men kept well closed up
through Washington but stopped at a grove, near where we stopped to camp, in
large numbers. Lieutenant Christie reported that only three hundred of the
Twenty-third marched into camp. This was substantially true, but conveyed an
erroneous impression that we fell out and straggled badly. All corrected
however soon.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 345
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