Camp Union, Fayetteville, Virginia,
December 15, 1861.
Dear Uncle: — I have
often wished since I have been in Virginia that you were well enough to come
and spend a few weeks with me. I have never wished it more than now. I am
quartered alone in a pleasant cottage house, with plenty to run and do whatever
I want done. The weather is lovely. We are drilling our men, building forts,
etc., etc., and are undisturbed by the world. The people hereabouts, many of
them fresh from the Rebel armies, come in, take the oath, and really behave as
if they were sick of it, and wanted to stop. Nothing but ill luck, or a great
lack of energy, will prevent our wiping out the Rebellion, The common people of
this region want to get back to coffee and salt and sugar, etc., etc., none of
which articles can now be got through whole extensive districts of country.
If nothing occurs
to prevent, I shall come home in January for thirty days. Will visit you at
Fremont, if you do not happen to be in Cincinnati or Columbus. . . .
Good-bye,
R. B. Hayes.
S. BlRCHARD.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 159
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