Rations of coffee, sugar, hard bread, etc., filled our camp
with joy last night. It now looks as if Grant had failed to crush Lee merely on
account of rain and mud. We seem to have had the best of the fighting
and to have taken the most prisoners. I suspect we have gained the most guns
and lost the most killed and wounded. General Crook thinks Grant will force the
fighting until some definite result is obtained.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 464
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