Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, December 2, 1861

Fayetteville, Virginia, December 2, 1861.

Dearest: — . . . Dr. Joe made up his mind to go by the first wagon to Gauley on his way to Cincinnati. Won't the boys jump to see him!

I should like a first-rate pair of military boots — not so high as common — high in the instep and large. Two or three military books — good reading books. We have Halleck1 and Scott's dictionary and don't want them. . . .

Affectionately,
R.
Mrs. Hayes.
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1 Henry Wager Halleck, “Elements of Military Art and Science

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 155

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