Saturday, May 16, 2015

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Monday, December 2, 1861

Snows all day in the mud. Letter from Lucy dated 24th. Seems in pretty good heart. Kanawha ferry stopped — flood wood too much for the rope. Men engaged fixing quarters as well as they can in such bad weather.

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 155

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