The weather has changed to cool, and although the sky is
still clouded I hope this long rain is now over. Our prisoners turn out to be
Hezekiah and Granville Bennett, cousins of the notorious James and William
Bennett, aged forty-nine and twenty-two, father and son, and Moss and George W.
Brothers, aged fifty-eight and forty-eight. Our information is not definite as
to their conduct. One or more of them belonged to the Southern army, and all
are accused by their Union neighbors with divers acts of violence against
law-and-order citizens.
Last evening Lieutenant Milroy came over from Glenville
reporting that Captain R. B. Moore feared an attack from three companies of
well armed Secessionists in the region west of them, say Spencer, and was
fortifying himself. The people immediately around him are friendly, he having
conducted himself with great prudence and good sense and by kindness and
justice made friends of the people of all parties.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 65
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