Early in the second week of our camping out in service,
Colonel Rosecrans returned and set vigorously to work organizing the regiment.
The evening of the day he returned we were closing up matters in our tent
preparatory to going to bed, when two gentlemen rode up with a dispatch which announced
the appointment, of Colonel Rosecrans to the post of brigadier-general, and
ordering him to repair to western Virginia to take command of Ohio troops
moving in that direction. We rode into Columbus and saw the colonel now
general, off about midnight. Good-bye to our good colonel. A sorry thing for
us. May it prove all he hopes to him. I shall never forget how his face shone
with delight as he read the dispatch.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 31
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