Raining this morning, very warm. Arrested, on complaint of a
Union man, H. T. Martin, a secession editor, who is charged with holding
communication with James and William Bennett, leaders of a guerrilla party. He
was formerly from Ohio. Is a Southern state's-right Democrat in talk, and makes
a merit of holding secession opinions. Having been engaged in getting up troops
for the Southern army, the colonel will probably send him to Ohio.
Colonel Lytle's men fired on near Bulltown; one killed, four
wounded; guerrilla party in the hills out of reach. Our regiment did not
destroy records. We have sent two captains and eighty men after the guerrillas.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 63
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