Camp 5, Princeton. — The Forty-fifth Regiment
had marched twenty miles through the rain to reach here, were very tired and
straggled badly. They were regularly stampeded, panic-stricken, and routed.
They report three killed in one party of stragglers. They had a cannon drawn by
six horses, but our men “yelled so” and “fired so fast” that it was no place
for cannon; so they wheeled it about and fled with it All queer! Company C
killed eleven, Colonel Jenifer burned Rocky Gap (four houses) and continued his
flight towards Wytheville. The Rebels report us two thousand cavalry and eight
thousand infantry!! Got our tents today; got into a good camp overlooking the
town.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 247-8
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