Fayetteville, Camp Union. — Pleasant weather — warm
and very muddy. A soldier of Company C died last night. Few cases of
sickness but very fatal; calls for great care. Must see to clean livers at
once. Made the commander of the post vice Colonel Eckley who is to leave
with the Twenty-sixth (he to command the Eightieth) in a day or two. Sergeant
McKinley brings me a letter from Lucy, the first since her confinement. She
says she is well again; calls, as she speaks of him, the little fourth “Joe.”
Well, Joe it shall be — a good name, after the best of brothers and uncles.
Reports of preparations southward to meet and cut off our
expedition to the railroad and the impassable roads have fast bound our
intended enterprise.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 183
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