Sunday a year ago was the 14th. South Mountain and its
losses and glories. How the sadness for the former fades and the satisfaction
with the latter grows!
General Burnside has east Tennessee. Knoxville ours;
Cumberland Gap taken, and our forces on the railroad nearly to Bristol.
Knoxville to Bristol one hundred and thirty miles; Bristol to depot at bridge
one hundred and seven; total two hundred and thirty-seven. Charleston to bridge
one hundred and sixty-six.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters
of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 435
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