Camp Jones. — Cloudy and rainy. Our water on this
mountain top is giving out. Avery and I rode six miles towards New River in the
rain but could find no good camping ground where water could be had. This rain
will perhaps give us enough here again.
Nothing definite from Richmond. There was some fighting and
an important change of position on Friday. There are rumors of disaster and
also of the burning of Richmond, but telegraphic communication is reported cut
off between Washington and McClellan. This is the crisis of the Nation's
destiny. If we are beaten at Richmond, foreign intervention in the form perhaps
of mediation is likely speedily to follow. If successful, we are on the sure
road to an early subjugation of the Rebels. The suspense is awful. It can't
last long. — Night; raining steadily.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 294-5
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