On October 8, 1864, Champ Ferguson entered the Emory and Henry College General Hospital with twelve to fifteen men almost unnoticed. Ferguson and another man then entered the room of Harry Shocker. Upon entering, a man with Champ recognized Shocker from the previous battle and said, "There was a wounded boy out of the 11th Michigan Cavalry lying in a bunk nearby. There is that boy now. I saved his life. He was lying among negroes at the time." Champ then said, "If I’d seen you lying among the Negroes, it would have been all day with you." The man with Champ then asked a boy in the room if he had any money, the boy replied no, and the man pulled out a $10 Confederate note and told him that would keep him in tobacco. Champ then asked Shocker, "Do you know Lieutenant Smith?" and Shocker replied no. Champ then said to Shocker, "Yes you do you damned Yankee, you know him well enough, but you don’t want to know him now. Where is he, then?" Shocker did not reply to Ferguson, and Ferguson got up to leave and told Shocker, "I have a begrudge against Smith; we’ll find him."