Camp Ewing, Virginia, up New River, twelve miles above
Gauley. — Officer of the day. Rode
to Townsend's Ferry to see Major Crawford's folly. Saw it. Preparations to
cross New River although the enemy must be aware of our purpose — a thing
difficult if unopposed, impossible and ruinous if opposed. Why don't these
generals have common sense?
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 145
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