Showery all day. Sent to Clarksburg H. T. Martin. He will
probably be sent to Columbus for safe keeping. I gave him a letter to my
brother-in-law to insure him attention there in case he should need. It is
impossible to avoid mistakes in these cases. Union men may make charges merely
to gratify personal animosity, knowing that in the nature of things a full
investigation is impossible.
During Monday night a squad of the Tenth Regiment returned
from the Buckhannon road with the body of one of the wild men of the mountains
found in this country. He followed their regiment, shooting at them from the
hills. They took him in the Bulltown region. He wore neither hat nor shoes, was
of gigantic size — weighing two hundred and thirty pounds; had long hooked
toes, fitted to climb — a very monster. They probably killed him after taking
him prisoner in cold blood — perhaps after a sort of trial. They say he was
attempting to escape.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 63
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