18th, A. M. — We shall make a short march today. Letters,
etc., may be directed as heretofore. Very glad to hear your talk about the
boys. It is always most entertaining to me. You will be a good instructor for
them. Let me hear from you as often as you can. You need not feel bound to
write long letters — short ones will do. I always like your letters to be long,
but I don't want you to put off writing because your time will not allow you to
write long ones.
It begins to look like spring at last. We are on very
elevated ground. The season is weeks later than in the valley of the Kanawha.
Kiss all the boys. Love to Grandma. I wish so much to be
with you all. I think of you constantly and with much happiness and love.
Good-bye.
Affectionately, your
R.
P. S. — 18th, P. M. I am ordered to advance to Princeton
tomorrow morning, in command of [the] Twenty-third, a section of McMullen's
Battery, and a squadron of cavalry. We are all delighted with this plan.
Mrs. Hayes.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 230
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