Flat Top Mountain. — Cold, rainy, and windy, — an
old-fashioned storm. Men bivouacking! Colonel Crook, of [the] Third Brigade,
was attacked yesterday morning by General Heth with the same force which drove
me out of Giles. Colonel Crook had parts or the whole of three regiments. He
defeated Heth and captured four of his cannon. Our loss, ten killed and forty
wounded. Enemy routed and one hundred prisoners. What an error that General Cox
didn't attack Williams and Marshall at Princeton! Then we should have
accomplished something.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 277
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