Clear and cold. Bet with Avery that five men could not put a
great log across Piney. Rode out to see the work. The pine log was
water-soaked, long, large, and very heavy. Five men from Company C worked
resolutely at it two or three hours, when Avery gave it up. — Threatening
again.
Further news shows that on Sunday our men near Pittsburg
[Landing] were surprised by the Rebel army in great force from Corinth,
Mississippi. They were driven from their camps with heavy loss, took shelter
near the river under protection of the gunboats. Early next day Buell came up
and attacked the enemy, routing him. Sidney Johnston reported killed and
Beauregard wounded— lost an arm. We barely escaped an awful defeat, if these
first accounts are true.
Island [Number] 10 was a great capture. Cannon, stores,
etc., etc., in prodigious quantities were taken. These victories if followed up
give us Memphis and New Orleans. — Nothing said about our moving the last three
or four days.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 227
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