Middletown, Maryland,
September 26, 1862.
Dear Uncle: —
Lucy is here and we are pretty jolly. She visits the wounded and comes back in
tears, then we take a little refreshment and get over it. I am doing well.
Shall, perhaps, come home a little sooner than I expected to be able to. I am now
in a fix. To get me for the Seventy-ninth, some of its friends got an order to
relieve me from the Twenty-third from the War Department. So I am a free man,
and can go or come as I see fit. I expect, however, to stay with [the]
Twenty-third.
Shall probably start home in ten days or so. I got your
letter of the 18th. You need have no anxiety about me. I think I shall come
home by way of Cleveland and Fremont, stopping a few days with you.
Love to all.
R.
S. BlRCHARD.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 359-60
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