Fayetteville, Virginia, Camp Union. — Another fine
day. Sergeant John McKinley, Company G, left for Mount Vernon this morning;
took a letter to Lucy and a watch to be repaired. He is a character, an erect,
neat, prompt old soldier. English of Lancaster, or rather Irish of England, he
talks the most profuse flattery, but it does win, fulsome as it is. He does his
whole duty. As he left me he said “I want to see that ‘Lieutenant’ from before
your name. Every good man should go up.”
Drilled as usual. Weather very warm at evening. "Jeff
Davis," a boy who came into Camp Chase with Company A and who drilled like
an old sergeant, though aged but thirteen, returned yesterday from Cleveland.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 161-2
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