Rained violently; starting postponed. Order modified to marching by
easy stages to Flat Top Mountain, there to choose strong position. General
Fremont speaks of our forces as his right wing; the left must be up towards
Cheat Mountain. We are now at the pivot; to proceed slowly until the left
wheels so as to face southwardly with us. Rained all day; couldn't move. At
evening looked slighteosly like clearing off.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of
Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 231
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