Telegram from Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to William A. Platt: September 15, 1862

Frederick, Maryland, September 15, 1862.

To W. A. Platt, Columbus, Ohio.

I am seriously wounded in the left arm above the elbow. The Ohio troops all behaved well.

R. B. Hayes.

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 353