Following the American Civil War Sesquicentennial with day by day writings of the time, currently 1863.

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Rutherford B. Hayes.

May 5, 2014

Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes

May 5, Thursday. — From Prince’s to Camp Creek, twenty-five miles. Road blocked by chopping trees. Cleared by thirty or forty of our axemen as fast as the column needed to pass. We led off reaching Flat Top at 11 o’clock A. M.

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