1862 April 19 Camp on Beckley's farm near Camp Hayes, Raleigh, Va.

[from the diary of Charles Hay, Co. H, 23rd Ohio]

                                       Camp on Beckley’s Farm, Apr. 19^th.

     In consequence of inclement weather, our

march has been indefinitely postponed.

We are encamped on the grounds of one

Gen. Beckly, a Northern man by birth &

education, but of Southern sympathies,

the latter of which was the means of

his being sent to Wheeling recently, under

guard.  We have a level camp, but if

rain continues at present rate, there’ll be no limit to mud.

[transcription by Mary Roy Dawson Edwards]

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