Camp Jones. — Had our first dress parade in five or
six weeks last night. No room or opportunity for it this side of Princeton, May
5. . . .
Wrote to General Hill requesting the commissions of Russell
G. French and Martin V. Ritter. Red-tape is a great nuisance unless everybody
acts with promptness and accuracy in all departments. This we know will not be
done. Red-tape must therefore be cut or important rights and interests [suffer].
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 290
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