Camp Green Meadows, Mercer County, Virginia. — Morgan's
gang, or Rebels encouraged by him, have got into Warrick County, Indiana. This
is the first successful (if it turns out successful) invasion of free soil. I
regret it on that account. I wished to be able to say that no inch of free soil
had been polluted by the footstep of an invader. However, this is rather an
incursion of robbers than of soldiers. I suppose no soldiers have yet set foot
on our soil.
I wish we were near or amidst the active movements. We ought
to be sent somewhere.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 307
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