A wet, raw day.
Visited the men, all at work on their new quarters — cabins sixteen by eighteen
feet square; four for a company and a kitchen or two. Rode out to General
Scammon's headquarters and dined with him. In my shanty are Dr. Webb,
Lieutenant-Colonel Comly, and Major McIlrath. Mess, same. Frank Alpin [Halpin],
cook, Harvey Carrington, ostler, Bill (colored), bootblack. I am to pay Alpin
[Halpin] five dollars, Bill three dollars and fifty cents, and Carrington seven
dollars and fifty cents.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 368
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