At Fayette, heard that Morgan was in Ohio at Piketon,
leaving there for Gallipolis. General Scammon wisely and promptly determined to
head him [off] by sending me. (This was after a sharp controversy.) [The]
Seventeenth with [the] Twenty-third and Thirteenth took steamboats from Loup
Creek for Gallipolis.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 420
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