Mr Boyd left as I had predicted, & we found
out that he is a Baptist minister. Why he
did not tell it can not imagine.
Nat came just as we got up from breakfast-
but there were some nice hot rolls brought
in for him which he enjoyed hugely--told
us all about his trip to Penn & Md with Stewart-
-took
government stores at Chambersburg--but Gen S-
would not permit his men to straggle or steal-
Gen Jones caught a Lieut just coming out of a store with
two new hats & made him give them up & had him arrested
the man turned to him & said "we will settle this Sir when the
war is over." Gen J gave him a withering look & said you old rogue
talk about settling with me, a gentlemen, Man hung his head-
J shook another fellow, & about thirty yds of calico fell from
underneath his coat; "Oh, sir, said an old woman putting her head
out an upper window, they are stealing all we have. "Yes
Madam," said Jones, "It is just what your men did in our
country, but I dont allow it & am ashamed that I have
such a set of rogues along." They met a man with a fine horse
and a cart & when they told him to give him up, the man burst into
tears, exclaiming Oh don't take poor old "Billie," but we took
him--A man came here who has been getting hay & insisted he
had a right to press Pa's hay, but Pa got very angry-got his
pistol & said would shoot him if he did & when Nat went
out the man pretended to be satisfied. Pa had no more
left than he wanted & departed, but we were all frightened &
fear he may turn up again. He pretended also that he
was going to pay Pa in M money & when Pa asked to see it
had none & the said the Gen told him to find out what
Pa asked in Md money & pay him the same in confederate
Pa called him a scoundrel
had so much to write about to day, forgot to say a
little on the uninteresting subject of my 24th birthday.
[as transcribed in 1972 by her granddaughter Anne Madison Wright Baylor]
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