Camp Hayes, Raleigh, Virginia. — Very warm, windy. Mud drying up rapidly.
Dr. Webb has returned. Dr. Hayes was at the bottom of the affair. Colonel
Scammon telegraphed that Dr. Webb couldn't be spared and ordered him to return
here. I suspect that Dr. Hayes made such representations to Colonel Scammon as
induced him to report Dr. Webb for examination. On reflection Colonel Scammon
no doubt felt that he had yielded too much and will now, I presume, put a stop
to further proceedings.
About 4 or 5 P. M.
yesterday I received an order requiring Lieutenant Stevens and a corporal and
six men to arrest General Beckley and take him to Wheeling. The arrest was
made. General Beckley's wife and family felt badly enough. The general said he
recognized the propriety of it and did not complain.
A thunder-storm
last night. Will it clear off or give us “falling weather”? The natives with
their queer garments and queerer speech and looks continue to come in.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 222-3
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