Camp Flat Top. — Today Colonel Scammon with a small
escort went over to Packs Ferry to look after affairs with Major Comly and his
boat-builders. A Captain Jenkins, of Kentucky, came from General Williams to
negotiate as to exchange of prisoners. General Cox detailed Lieutenant-Colonel
Hines and myself to meet him. After some reflection, I suggested that it was
honoring Captain Jenkins too much to send two lieutenant-colonels, and the
programme was changed.
I have caught a bad cold, the worst I have had since I came
into the army, caused chiefly by changing underclothes and stockings from thick
to thin.
Called on Colonel Moor of the Twenty-eighth. The German
officers are neater and more soldierly in dress and accoutrements than ours.
The Twenty-eighth has a fine band, twenty or twenty-four musicians. Wrote to
Lucy a short letter — no flow in it; but how I love my wife and boys! All the
more tenderly for these separations.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 275-6
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