Rain all night. Yesterday, a clear, cold morning; a white
frost; cloudy and hazy all day; rain at night.
P. M. Rode with Dr. Webb, Lieutenant McKinley, and a dragoon
out on road to Coal Forks as far as Davis Creek, thence down the creek to the
Guyandotte Pike (river road), thence home. Crossed the creek seven times; water
deep and bottom miry.
Today a fight between four hundred Jenkins' or Floyd's men
and two hundred and seventy-five Thirteenth Virginia [men] at Hurricane Bridge.
Rebels repulsed. Our loss three killed and six wounded, one mortally. Floyd's
men coming into Logan, Boone, Wayne, Cabell, and Putnam [Counties], reporting
Floyd dismissed and his troops disbanded. The troops from being state troops
refuse to go into Confederate service but seem willing to fight the Yankees on
their own hook.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 398
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