October 14. Camp Tompkins, General Rosecrans’ Headquarters, near Gauley Bridge. – I came down here to hold court today. Left my regiment about eight miles up the pike. Mrs. Tompkins lives here in a fine large white house. Her husband, a graduate of West Point, is a colonel in the secession army. Why devastate the homes and farms of poor deluded privates in the Rebel army and protect this property? Treat the lady well, as all women ought always to be treated, but put through the man for his great crime.
Diary of Rutherford B. Hayes.
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