A most disagreeable rainy day. Mud and roads horrible.
Marched from Blacksburg to Salt Pond Mountain. My brigade had charge of the
train. I acted as wagon-master; a long train to keep up. Rode all day in mud
and rain back and forth. Met "Mudwall" Jackson and fifteen hundred
[men]—a poor force that lit out rapidly from near Newport. Got to camp — no
tents—[at] midnight. Mud; slept on wet ground without blankets. A horrible day,
one of the worst of all my experience. Fifteen miles.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 457-8
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