A cold and windy but clear morning — good winter weather. It
was warm last night until 2 [A. M.], wind veered around from south to north and
[it was] cold as blazes (why blazes?). Rode with Major Comly down to Captain
McIlrath's. He preferred remaining in his quarters to a trip to Raleigh. Five
companies to be sent to Raleigh to occupy it, — to push further if best to do
so.
Drilled in a clear, brisk air. Colonel Scammon is preparing
to send to Raleigh in the hope that a party of the enemy at Princeton may be
surprised; also that railroad bridges near Newbern may be destroyed.
Harvey Carrington and T. S. Dickson, Company C, complain of
Sergeant Keen and Thomas Mason for keeping two hundred and ten dollars won at “Honest
John.” They say the agreement was that whatever was lost or won was to be
returned and that they played merely to induce others to play. I told them that
as they, by their own stories, were stool-pigeons, they were entitled to no
sympathy. They admitted that much of the money had been won gaming. I declined
to order the money returned to them. I sent for Sergeant Keen and Mason, who
denied the story of Carrington and Dickson, but admitted winning the money. I
ordered them to pay the money into the company fund of Company C where it will
be used to buy gloves and such other comforts as the Government does not
furnish for all the company.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 170
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