Camp Union, Fayetteville, Virginia. — A. M., before
breakfast, some clouds and wind but sun now shining. Change threatened. We have
here Twenty-sixth Regiment, now under Lieutenant-Colonel Eckley, who also
commands the post; Thirtieth Regiment, five companies, under Colonel Ewing;
Twenty-third, now under my command; McMullen's Battery, and a Pennsylvania
cavalry company, stationed on the road towards Raleigh. Twenty-third here 550,
Twenty-sixth, 600, Thirtieth, 200, battery, 40, cavalry, 40 — 1430 men. Building
two forts on hill northeast of town, one on hill southwest of town. Wind and
clouds during the day, but the sun shone brightly on our dress parade, making
this our sixteenth good day.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 163-4
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