7:30 A. M. — Colonel Comly started from Coal's Mouth
down [the] river at daylight.
8:30 A. M. — Dispatch from Colonel Comly at Red House
says, “Jenkins supposed to have recrossed the river five miles above Point
Pleasant.” Our telegraphic communications via Gauley and Clarksburg with the
outside world cut off between Gauley and Clarksburg! Bottsford says now: “Keep
your powder dry and trust in God!” I advised to send word to Captain Fitch at
Gallipolis to run his steamboats up Kanawha and prevent a recrossing of the
Rebels, but it was too late or seems not to have been heeded.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 400
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