Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Thursday, June 30, 1864

[Camp Piatt, West Virginia,]— This [has been] the hardest month of the war; hot and dusty long marches; hungry, sleepy night marches; many skirmishes; two battles. Men worn out and broken down.

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 474