Major Comly calls his camp at Raleigh “Camp Hayes.” It
rained last night as if bent to make up for the long drouth. Foggy this
morning; warm and muddy enough to stop all advances. Besides, yesterday the
Twenty-sixth Regiment was ordered from here to Kentucky. Two other regiments go
from below. Ten regiments from New York in same direction. Such an immense
force as is gathering ought to open the Mississippi River, capture Memphis, New
Orleans, and Nashville before the heat of summer closes operations on that
line. Oh, for energy, go-ahead! With horses here we could do wonders, but such
a rain as last night forbids any extensive movement.
Sent today as recruiting officers for the regiment Captains
Lovejoy and Skiles, Sergeants Hicks and Powers, privates Seekins and Lowe, to
report at Camp Chase to Major McCrea, U. S. A.
No rain today, but mist and clouds with occasional flakes of
snow.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 177
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