Flat Top Mountain. — Wrote to Platt about promotion
to colonelcy in one of the new regiments. I would dislike to leave the
Twenty-third under any circumstances and would not be willing to do it to be
taken from active service. But I certainly wish the command of a regiment before
the war closes.
Today, to my surprise, Rev. A. Wilson made his appearance.
He could not get his pay on the pay sheets furnished because there was no
certificate of his resignation having been accepted. He was directed to return
to the regiment by General Fremont's adjutant-general. So he came. One of the
men, seeing him, said to me with a knowing look: “Have you any chickens in your
coop, Colonel?” A pretty reputation for a chaplain truly! — A fine rain last
night and this forenoon.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 301
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