All things point to early action. [The] Thirty-sixth Ohio
came up and entered our camp yesterday morning; now below us. The enlisted men
gave General Crook a seven-hundred-dollar sword on our parade this morning.
Avery, a major, on his way to Annapolis with the Sixtieth.
Glad he is getting his deserts; sorry to lose him. I hope the Thirty-sixth is
to be with us. General Durfie and others dined with me today. All talked
action.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 454
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