Another warm, bright day — the roads improving. People come
twenty-five miles to take the oath. How much is due to a returning sense of
loyalty and how much to the want of coffee and salt, is more than I know. They
are sick of the war, ready for peace and a return to the old Union. Many of
them have been Secessionists, some of them, soldiers.
Rode Schooley's high-tailed, showy horse twice. Drilled
after evening parade. Met the sergeants for instruction tonight.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 156
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