Saw General Rosecrans and staff. Caught our guard without a
salute. We go with him south today. A good time with McCook and his Ninth.
Marched from Bulltown to Flatwoods on road to Sutton, about ten or eleven
miles. Camped on a hill with Captain Canby's Company F of our right wing and
Captain Moore's Company I, ditto. How pleasant to meet them after our long
(five weeks) separation. They have had troubles, hard marches, and fun; one man
shot resisting a corporal, two men in irons for a rape, and one man arrested
for sleeping on post (third offence penalty death!)
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 83
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