Rode up to Captain Mack's (Regular-army artillery officer)
ten miles up N[ew River] and near our old Camp Ewing. Business: To appraise
under order from General Rosecrans damage done citizens by our men. Board
consisted of Colonel McCook, self, and Captain Mack. Met McCook mending road.
[He] said he would sign what we should agree to. Did the work and slept with
Captain Mack in his new Sibley tent, warmed by a stove. A good institution, if
[tent is] floored, for winter.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 150
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