Very fine weather for a week past, and I am busy digging
ditches, building walks, roads, bridges, and quarters. A pleasant occupation.
Great fighting at Murfreesboro; heavy losses on our side, but the general
result not yet known. Rainy today. I must build a skiff to get over to the
brick house to headquarters easily.
During past year we have received sixty-eight recruits;
discharged sixty-six; killed in action forty-seven; died of wounds twenty; died
of disease fifteen. [Total] deaths eighty-two. Total loss aggregates one
hundred and forty-eight. Net loss eighty.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 386
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