A good little drill. Mr. Landcraft, one of the three
slaveholders of Monroe County who were true to the Union, and a Mrs. Roberts
were arrested and brought into my camp in obedience to orders from
headquarters. Mrs. Roberts is a ladylike woman; her husband, a Secesh, is a
prisoner at Raleigh. Mrs. Roberts and her uncle, Mr. Landcraft, came over New
River and passed into our lines, the pickets admitting them, without proper
passes. If this is the whole offense, the arrest is on most insufficient and
frivolous grounds. In the case of Mrs. Roberts, who has a nursing child at
home, it is as cruel as it is unnecessary. I shall do my best to get them out
of the trouble. These needless persecutions of old men and of women, I am
ashamed of.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 314-5
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