The recent victory of Grant near Chattanooga seems to be
very complete. We have not heard from Burnside, besieged in Knoxville by
Longstreet, since the 24th or 25th. We have some apprehensions, but hope that
he has been relieved by Grant's success. Meade has pushed into the heart of
eastern Virginia after Lee. I fear the result. The Army of the Potomac has been
as unlucky on Virginia soil as the army of Lee on our soil.
Company B left today for home, over three-fourths,
fifty-four, having enlisted as veteran volunteers. Companies A, E, and F are
likely to follow suit.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 445-6
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