Battle of Cloyd's Mountain, or as Rebs call it "Cloyd
Farm." Lasted one hour and a half. The Twenty-third and Thirty-sixth,
under the immediate direction of General Crook, charged across a meadow three
hundred yards wide, sprang into a ditch and up a steep wooded hill to Rebel
breastworks, carried them quickly but with a heavy loss. Captain Hunter killed.
Lieutenant Seaman ditto. Abbott's left arm shattered. Rice a flesh wound. Eighteen
killed outright; about one hundred wounded — many mortally. This in [the]
Twentythird. [The] Thirty-sixth less, as the Twenty-third led the column.
Entered Dublin Depot, ten and one-half miles, about 6:30 P. M. A fine victory.
Took some prisoners, about three hundred, [and] five pieces [of] artillery,
many stores, etc., etc. A fine country; plenty of forage. My loss, two hundred
and fifty [men].
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 456-7
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