A cold morning, ground frozen; promises to be a fine day.
Snowed all the afternoon. A busy day. Had a good confidential talk with Colonel
Scammon. He gains by a close and intimate acquaintance.
Alfred Beckley, Jr., left with a pledge to return if he
failed to get exchanged for young Henderson, Company H, Twenty-third, the
captured scout.
Two women wanted me to compel a neighbor to pay for tobacco
and hogs he had stolen from them. One had a husband in the Secesh army and the
other in the Union army.
An old man who had been saved by our soldiers because he was
a Mason, so he thought, wanted pay for rails, sheep, and hogs; another, for
hogs; another would give security for his good behavior, having been
discharged, on condition he would do so, from Columbus, Ohio.
Sixteen Rebels captured in Raleigh County by Captain Haven
sent in. Thirteen of our men found thirteen of them in a house armed to the
teeth. They surrendered without firing a shot!! A mail-carrier caught with
letters of the 17th. Many from soldiers of the Twenty-second Virginia to their
friends in Boone County.
Dr. Joe in a stew and much laughed at by Dr. Jim and myself
because he left his trunk, etc., on the river in a big skiff in charge of a
blacksmith he had never seen before.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 193-4
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