Friday, September 8, 2017

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sophia Birchard Webb, January 25, 1863

Camp Reynolds, West Virginia, January 25, 1863.

Dear Mother: — Lucy with Birch and Webb arrived here last night safe and sound. We shall enjoy the log-cabin life very much — the boys are especially happy, running about where there is so much new to be seen. . . . I write merely to relieve anxiety about the new soldiers. — Love to all.

Affectionately,
Rutherford.
Mrs. Sophia Hayes.

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 391-2

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