Spurgeon went out with forage detail. Bill Smith lost $15.
Circumstances as follows: Capt. had given him some money to pay the boys. We
lay on the blankets conversing when Sheldon came up, and Bill pulled out his
money and paid him. He had showed me the money a little while before. All three
lay down, Bill and I side by side and S. a little farther down. All at once
Sheldon attracted mine and B.'s attention to a holster, asking if I had lost my
revolver. After we had examined, I left. In five or ten minutes Nick called us
to dinner. We ate and I went a few rods into the woods, leaving B. by his
horse. When I came back B. had lost his money. We looked all about. Soon he
told me he suspicioned Sheldon. I tried to find him. Finally found him playing
poker, 2 or 3 P. M. Stolen at noon.
SOURCE: Frances Andrews Tenney, War Diary Of Luman
Harris Tenney, p. 38
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