On the 28th General Kelley reviewed the Third Brigade, [and]
General Duffie's cavalry. A beautiful day; a fine spectacle. I had only nine
companies of the Twenty-third here — a small affair. General Kelley is a
gentlemanly man of fifty to sixty; not an educated man — nothing particularly
noticeable about him. [The] 29th, the three generals with their young ladies,
Miss Jones, Miss Scammon, and Miss Smith and staffs went to Fayette. I [am]
left in command here at Charleston. [The] 29th, got into new quarters —
wall-tents on boards.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 443
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