Camp Ewing, November 5. – Six hundred and fifty-seven present for duty; sixty-nine sick. Total strength nine hundred and thirty-six. Absent one hundred and ninety-three – all sick but about forty on detached service. Captain Woodward worse and in great danger. Enemy firing again on McCook’s camp. No casualties at 10:30 o’clock.
Diary of Rutherford B. Hayes.
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