Fayetteville, January 6, 1862.
Dear Mother: —
I yesterday received your letter dated Christmas. It was very welcome. I also
got a letter from home of one day's later date. Glad to know you are all well.
It is impossible yet to fix the time of my visit home. It may be a month yet.
If the weather allows, we are going tomorrow to Raleigh — twenty-five miles
further from the steamboat landing, and rendering our communications with home
somewhat more precarious. We are now in a region where the resident population
is friendly, and we are urged to come to Raleigh by Union citizens for
protection. We have established a camp there, and may, perhaps, push our
movements further toward the interior. . . . I am busily engaged getting ready
to move.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 179-80
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