Marched five (miles) to Edinburg, seven to Mount Jackson, seven and one-fourth to New Market nineteen and one-fourth [in all]. A fine day; fine scenery.
Rebels stood a short time at Reed's Hill near Mount Jackson, but soon retreated; admit a bad defeat — loss of seventeen pieces of artillery and five thousand men. Camp facing the gap into Luray Valley.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 512-3
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