October 11, Camp Ewing. – Wet, cold. We hear of enemy back at Camp Lookout and rumors of, over New River. On this road are many deserted homes – great Virginia taverns wasted. The people are for the most part a helpless and harmless race. Some Massachusetts people have come in and made pleasant homes. We are on a turnpike leading up the Kanawha to White Sulphur Springs and so on to eastern Virginia.
Diary of Rutherford B. Hayes.
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