Camp Hayes, Raleigh, Virginia. — Windy, cloudy,
threatening more rain. Captain Haven in command of companies G and K started
for the Bragg and Richmond settlement this morning to defend that Union
stronghold and to operate if practicable against a force of cavalry and
bushwhackers who are reported to be threatening it. They will remain at least
three days.
Lieutenant Stevens, Sergeant Deshong, a corporal, and six
men started this morning with General Beckley for Fayetteville and probably
Wheeling.
Company A came up about 3 P. M. Hardy, well drilled. Camp in
Sibley tents in court-house yard in front of my quarters.
Captain Zimmerman with Companies C and E and ten prisoners
returned at 4 P. M. Marched fifty miles; burned the residence of Pleasant
Lilly. Lieutenant Hastings came in about same time; had protected the election
in the Marshes, and marched forty miles.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 223
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