Equinoctial storm
today. Our regiment does not move. I am getting ready for my new quarters and
duties. Just got ready for bed; a dark, dismal, rainy night. Visited the
hospital tonight. Saw several of Colonel Tyler's men who were wounded and taken
prisoners in his surprise a month ago and were retaken by us after the fight at
Carnifax Ferry. Intelligent men from Oberlin, one Orton; one from Cleveland.
They have suffered much but are in good spirits. The enemy boasted that they
would soon drive us out and would winter in Cincinnati.
SOURCE: Charles
Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard
Hayes, Volume 2, p. 99
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