. . . . . Yesterday I had a number of copies of the Proclamation
posted through the town. The few citizens gathered around, the lettered reading
the unlettered listening with something that looked like a ghost of interest. .
. .
At 2½ p. m. General Gillmore and staff came clattering into
the cabin of the Ben Deford. They seemed greatly elated by the success of the
expedition, and were full of Col. Henry’s achievement in the capture of
artillery beyond Camp Finegan. In the afternoon Lieut. Michir came in with his
railway train from Baldwin. He had four mules for locomotive who had a playful
habit of humping themselves and casting off their riders. He had a young woman
on board to whom he showed the usual courtesies of railroad Conductors.
SOURCES: Clara B. Hay, Letters of John Hay and
Extracts from Diary, Volume 1, p. 163; Tyler Dennett, Editor, Lincoln and the Civil War in the diaries and
letters of John Hay, p. 160
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