Settled weather at last; cold nights. One of the most
interesting and affecting things is the train of contrabands, old and young,
male and female — one hundred to two hundred — toiling uncomplainingly along
after and with the army. They with our prisoners and the trains left for Gauley
this morning
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 464
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