A lovely winter day, frozen in the morning, warm and thawing
before noon. Inspected with Adjutant Avery the quarters; creditably clean. Feel
happy today; fine weather, good health, the probable victory over Zollicoffer,
the prospect — this chiefly — by next Sunday of seeing my darling Lucy and the
boys — “all the boys.”
A pleasant trip with Lieutenants Avery and Ellen and two
riflemen of Company B to Long Point, with its romantic views of New River. The
only dash to this pleasure is the report that my friend Bob McCook is seriously
wounded. Later, not seriously only gloriously wounded. Good! He and I were
friends before the war and more intimately since. His regiment and ours also
fraternized very cordially — Yankees and Germans. Sperry went to Raleigh last night
with Company B.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 194
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