Cold; no rain falling this morning, but the storm not over.
Fremont at the head of our department, the Mountain District, western Virginia
and east Tennessee. Good! 1 admire the general. If he comes up to my
anticipations, we shall have an active campaign.
Colonel Scammon returned, also Major Comly, to Fayetteville.
They send no news and bring no newspapers. Thoughtless fellows! No, I must not
call the colonel fellow. He put down a countryman who came in with, “Are
you the feller what rents land?” Colonel Scammon: “In the first place I am not
a feller; in the second place, take off your hat! and in the third place, I don't
rent land. There is the door”!
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 213
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