We are target firing now. The Enfields are a little better
sighted than the muskets; the muskets have most power and the longest range.
Company C does rather the best shooting, Companies E and A coming next.
A zouave at the Flat Top camp found tied to a tree with five
bullet holes through him! Naked too! An enemy's cavalry patrol seen two miles
outside of our pickets. Secesh, ten or twelve in number.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 307
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