Fayetteville, January 16, 1862.
Dear Lucy: —
Lieutenants Warren and Smith leave today. We are very well. Mud awful deep and
streams overflowing. I shall apply
for leave of absence soon after Captains Sperry and Zimmerman return, provided
Dr. Joe is here. Of course it would not do for two prominent officers of the
same family to be absent at the same time. These leaves of absence are so
abused, that in the absence of some great necessity, I would not leave my
regiment unless plenty of officers remain. I shall leave about the last of the
month, I think, unless Dr. Joe should be detained on your account.
I am writing in much haste with a host of citizens growling.
Love to all.
Good-bye, dearest.
R. B. Hayes
Mrs. Hayes.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 188-9
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