General Benham's brigade return from the pursuit of Floyd.
He runs like a quarter-horse. One of the servants says that when Floyd was
here, Mrs. Mauser said she hoped he wouldn't leave. He replied: “I assure you,
madam, I'll not leave Cotton Hill until compelled by death or the order of the
Secretary of War”; and, added the darkey, “The next I saw of him he was running
by as fast as he could tar.” At night, a fierce snow-storm; no shelter for many
of the troops; bivouac in it!
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 148
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