A cold, bitterly cold, night but a bright, fine day. Major
McIlrath and Dr. Webb left for Ohio today. Major under orders from General
Ewing goes to Camp Chase with prisoner. Doctor got a leave from General Ewing
for twenty days to look after medicines, but this morning came a thirty-day
leave from Washington.
Sinister rumors from General Burnside. Telegraph operator
reported to say, “Burnside whipped like the Devil”! Ah, if so, sad hearts in
the North! Intervention again. So much blood shed in vain! I confess to feeling
much anxiety. The crossing of the river at Fredericksburg with so little
resistance, looks as if the enemy was willing to let Burnside cross — as if
they were leading him into a trap. I trust the sinister report is false.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 375-6
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