A rainy night. No march this A. M. Sergeant Ogden here
wounded twice — not dangerously. Given by Captain Hastings a pair of spurs from
Cloyd's Mountain said to have been worn by General Jenkins.
12 M. Ordered to march. [The] Fifth and Seventh Virginia
dismounted men report to me under Major Slade; Captain Reynolds, quartermaster.
P. M. Marched in a driving rain over execrable roads to near
Salt Sulphur Springs, three or four miles south of Union. The question is, Can
the train pass over such roads? — six miles. Out of grub; live off of the
country. General Averell and his cavalry a failure.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 458-9