Camp 3, Shady
Spring. — Rain fell at intervals last night; falling in a “drizzling manner”
this morning. Colonel Scammon says we have rifled muskets at Gauley. If good
long-range pieces, this is good. We must have pieces that will carry half a
mile, or we shall never hit these fellows in western Virginia. Sent Lieutenant
Bottsford with Company C sixteen miles after Foley's bushwhackers.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of
Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 237
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