Raleigh, Virginia, April 17, 1862.
Dearest: — I
was made happy by your letter and the fine picture of you it contained. You
seem undecided which you intended should have it, Uncle Joe or your husband.
But I shall keep it. You will have to send another to Joe.
Very glad the money and everything turned out all right. I
get the Commercial quite often — often enough to pay for taking it. And
you paid Mr. Trenchard! Why, you are getting to be a business woman. I shall
have to let the law out to you when I come home again. I do not know that I
shall have an opportunity to do much for Will De Charmes, but I shall bear him
in mind. If Fremont ever comes along here I may succeed.
We are still hunting bushwhackers, succoring persecuted Union
men, and the like. Our intended advance was stopped by a four-days rain which,
like the old four-days meeting, I began to think never would end. We are now
getting ready to go on — in fact we are ready, but waiting for others. A
great battle at Pittsburg [Landing] and probably not a very great victory. It
will all come right, however. We are told that Captain Richardson of the
Fifty-fourth was killed. You will perhaps remember him as a gigantic lieutenant
of Company D, whose wife was at Camp Chase when you were there.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 229-30
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