A. M. Finished letter to Lucy. Must get ready to move. Put
all the regiment into tents today, by one o'clock. A shower fell just after the
tents were up.
Colonels Scammon and Ewing [arrived]; Lieutenant Kennedy, A.
A. A. G. to Colonel Scammon, and Lieutenant Muenscher, aide, with an escort of
horsemen came with them. The Thirtieth began to arrive at 2:30 P. M. They came
in the rain. Major Hildt came to my quarters. I joined the regiment out in camp
— the camp in front of General Beckley's residence one mile from Raleigh. Rainy
all night. Our right rest on the road leading southwardly towards Princeton,
the left on the graveyard of Floyd's men. The graves are neatly marked;
Twentieth Mississippi, Phillips' Legion, Georgia, Fourth Louisiana, furnished
the occupants. Four from one company died in one day! (November 2, 1861.)
Slept in Sibley tent. Received orders to proceed with Twenty-third,
thirty [of] Captain Gilmore's Cavalry, and a section of McMullen's Battery to
Princeton tomorrow at 7 A. M.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 230-1
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