Friday, January 28, 2022

Diary of Brigadier-General Rutherford B. Hayes: Tuesday, [February] 21, 1865*

Shriver Mansion. — At 3:30 A. M. Captain McNeal and fifty or so of his band kidnapped Generals Kelley and Crook from their hotel on Baltimore Street. Daring and well executed. They inquired for me but on learning that I quartered in camp did not look further.

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* Probably misdated. See explanation of misdate in Diary of Brigadier-General Rutherford B. Hayes: Tuesday, [February] 14, 1865. I speculate this may have been a diary with preprinted dates in which General Hayes is writing in the wrong month.

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 559

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