Monday, [January] 18. P. M. — Raining the first time this month. New Year’s Eve change came about midnight. January 1 cold and windy, “very, very indeed”; snow about [the] 3rd. Two weeks of unusual cold weather. Kanawha frozen; navigation suspended about a week; a week’s good sleighing. Now a thaw for a few days; snow going off.
Captain Gilmore out after Rebel Colonel Ferguson, Sixteenth Virginia Cavalry; fourth day out.
