24th, A. M. — A year ago tonight you and I walked about Camp
Chase looking at the men cooking their rations to be ready to leave the next
morning. A short and a long year. Upon the whole, not an unhappy one. Barring
the separation from you, it has been a healthy fine spree to me.
Since writing to you yesterday I learn from Dr. Joe, who is
now here, that there really seems to be a fair prospect of Colonel Scammon's
promotion. This will probably induce me to hold off as long as I can about the
Seventy-ninth business. You can simply say you don't know if you are asked
before hearing further as to what I shall do. — Love to all the boys.
Affectionately,
R.
Mrs. Hayes.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 309
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