At Camp Ewing. —
Rode down to Hawk's Nest with General Schenck and Colonel Scammon and
Lieutenant Chesebrough; a most romantic spot. A cliff seven hundred feet
perpendicular projects out over New River; a view of New River for a mile or
two above and below the cliff, rushing and foaming between the mountains. On
the top was a small entrenchment built by Wise. A Union man (like other Union
men) wishing to move to Ohio, says he means to burn his house to keep it from
falling into secession hands.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 114-5
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