Camp Tompkins, near New River,
two and one-half miles above Gauley Bridge, at General Rosecrans' Headquarters.
— A threatening morning, a steady rain, fall fashion, in the afternoon.
Received a letter by Mr. Schooley, dated 9th, from Lucy. Ruddy had been sick
with a chill and Lucy not so well. Dear wife! She is troubled in her present
trials that I am absent, but stoutly insists that she can bear up, that she is “a
good soldier's wife.” She sends me pants, etc., etc. A great many papers today
in the court-martial line. Dr. Menzies called. Somewhat gloomy but not more so
than is his wont.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams,
editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2,
p. 116
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