My birthday—forty-two. Wrote to mother. Lieutenant Meigs killed last
night by guerrillas, three miles south of camp. Houses on the road for five
miles burned by order of General Sheridan. Not according to my views or
feelings.*
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* The order was mitigated. Only a few houses near the scene of the
murder were burned.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of
Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 522
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