March at 6 A. M. to Fayettevllle. Reached camp on Raleigh road
in a cold driving rain at 1 P. M. Camped on wet ground in snow. A rough opening
of our campaign.
Fifth and Seventh [Virginia Cavalry], six hundred men,
[under] Major Slack, attached to [the] First Brigade. [The] Thirty-fourth
[Ohio], Major Furney, two hundred and seventy men, ditto. — Twelve miles.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 455
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