December 8. Started P. M. for Gauley (a campaign to
Lewisburg). Avery, Mather, McKinley, Dr. Webb; one hundred men under Captain
Warren of Twenty-third, whole of Fifth Virginia under Colonel Tomlinson, Ninety-first
and Twelfth of Colonel White's brigade, General Duffie's Cavalry, General
Scammon and staff, to co-operate with General Averell in an attack on the
railroad at Salem. Stopped at Clark Wyeth's, five miles above Piatt, evening of
9th [8th]. 9th to Gauley Bridge at Mrs. Hale's, Warren and Twenty-third — twenty-six
and one-half miles, 10th, nineteen miles to Lookout (Mrs. Jones's), 11th,
twenty-two miles to Hickman's. 12th, twenty-three miles to Lewisburg, to Mrs.
Bell's. 13th, return thirteen miles to Jesse Thompson's, where my pistol was
stolen by young ladies; got it back by threat of sending father and mother to
Camp Chase. 14th, three miles to Meadow Bluff. Stopped with Sharp. 15th, at
Meadow Bluff. 16th, returned twenty-seven miles to Mrs. Jones'. 17th, to
Gauley, Loup Creek, and steamer Viola to Charleston. — A good trip for
the season. What of Averell?
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 447
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