Camp Hayes, Raleigh, Virginia. — . . . Dr. Webb
received an order from the medical director on General Rosecrans' staff to
report for examination before a medical board at Wheeling. If he is singled
out, it is an indignity and I do not blame him for resigning rather than
submit. I have written to see what it means. I hope we are not to lose him.
Captain Sperry returned with thirteen prisoners and a few
horses. Several of the prisoners wished to come in but feared to [do] so. The
Rebels are vindictive in punishing all who yield. Abram Bragg and Wm. C.
Richmond with other Union men never sleep at home; they hide up on the hills
during the night. This they have done for two months past. . . .
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 219
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