Sunday, October 26, 2014

Diary of Major Rutherford B. Hayes: Sunday August 25, 1861

Beverly. — A cold night. Clear but foggy this A. M. No orders to march yet. Good! Provisions and provender, i. e. rations and forage, scarce and poor. Captain Qark, a spirited German (Prussian) officer of the "Greys," dined us yesterday at Widow What's-her-name’s hotel, Got letters here from Lute, Uncle, and Mother, with a Testament from Mother. Shall read it “in course” — through I mean; begin now.

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 76

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