Camp Tompkins, General Rosecrans’ Headquarters, near
Gauley Bridge. — I came down here
to hold court today. Left my regiment about eight miles up the pike. Mrs.
Tompkins lives here in a fine large white house. Her husband, a graduate of
West Point, is a colonel in the secession army. Why devastate the homes and
farms of poor deluded privates in the Rebel army and protect this property?
Treat the lady well, as all women ought always to be treated, but put through
the man for his great crime.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 115
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