Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Monday, February 3, 1862

Charleston, Virginia.—Leave this morning on the steamboat for Gallipolis. Reached there at 2

P. M. A drizzly, cold day, snow on the hills, mud, snow, and slush at Gallipolis. With Avery and Bill Brown over town; oysters, eggs, and ale. At nine P. M. on Dunleith down the Ohio.

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 198