As commander of the post have charge of the pass business.
Have deputized to do the clerkly part, and private Gray, Company I, to do the
orderly and department part, an erect, neat, fine old soldier; like him much. .
. .
The Twenty-sixth preparing to leave. Will take William
Smith, a crack shot and well known bushwhacker, to Charleston or Columbus.
James Phillips the owner of this cottage was in the habit of going to Miller's
Ferry to shoot at our men. Mr. Mauser opposed it, said the town would be
burned. To no purpose. Phillips kept at the business.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 186-7
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