November 15. Friday. — General Benham’s brigade return from the pursuit of Floyd. He runs like a quarter-horse. One of the servants says that when Floyd was here, Mrs. Mauser said she hoped he wouldn’t leave. He replied: “I assure you, madam, I’ll not leave Cotton Hill until compelled by death or the order of the Secretary of War”; and, added the darkey, “The next I saw of him he was running by as fast as he could tar.” At night, a fierce snow-storm; no shelter for many of the troops; bivouac in it!
Diary of Rutherford B. Hayes.
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