Last night Lieutenant Austin came into camp with
thirty-three men and two guns; a ten-pound Parrott and a three-inch Rebel gun
captured by Colonel Crook at Lewisburg last summer. Cleared off cold last
night; a strong northwest wind all night and today; bitterly cold. No fun in
tent life in such weather. Rumors of the fight at Hurricane Bridge represent
the Rebels as Jenkins' men, four hundred to seven hundred strong.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 399
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