Still snowing. I write home and to Mother this morning.
Captain R. B. Foley, of Mercer County signs himself Captain
of Confederate Company; Captain Michael Hale, Raleigh, ditto; Joel F. Wood, James
N. Wood, Wm. A. Walker, Geo. A. Walker, [and] Charles Walker (Rev.), all of
Raleigh.
The foregoing people agree to remain peaceably at home if we
will not molest them. I wrote as follows: “No citizen who remains peaceably at
home and who neither directly nor indirectly gives aid or comfort to the
enemies of the United States will be molested in person or property by the
troops under my command.”
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 214
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