George Ward Nichols

They're marching along with the army and are, for all intents and purposes, part of the army.

I think I think it was another staff member named George Ward Nichols.

He had spoken with someone who was a driver.

And he relayed this story to Hitchcock and the rest of the staff.

Their peers could entrust them with information.

But in some cases, it placed them in difficult positions, right, of having many of their their peers or fellow enslaved people to be very resentful of them.

But in this case that you're describing, George Ward Nichols, who was another one of Sherman's officers who left a really important diary for us, he describes an instance in which they arrive on a plantation and one of the plantation's drivers pulls him aside and basically relates the fact that the plantation owner had been committing or had been a serial rapist of one of the women.

That was Judge Harris, I think was his