Bright, warm weather. Colonel Scammon moved from Mrs.
Manson's house to Dr. Stites'. Lieutenants Warren and Smith start for Ohio. I send letters to Mother, Uncle, and
Lucy. Warm and so muddy. The Kanawha up. Three steamboats at Loup Creek.
Navigation good. Not having written “Thursday” above until this moment I
thought it was Wednesday, and by a bet with Lieutenant Reichenbach lost a
bottle of wine and the sardines. Present Dr. Jim W. [James Webb]; Lieutenants
Reichenbach, Avery, and Kennedy. I fear Avery loves liquor “not wisely but too
well.” Major Comly says he has captured two hundred and five law books.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 188
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