Judge Matthews and I have agreed to go into the service for
the war, — if possible into the same regiment. I spoke my feelings to him,
which he said were his also, viz., that this was a just and necessary war and
that it demanded the whole power of the country; that I would prefer to go
into it if I knew I was to die or be killed in the course of it, than to live
through and after it without taking any part in it.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary
and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 17
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