Camp Reynolds, Virginia, March 4, 1863.
Dear Uncle: —
Getting on finely. The boys busy and very happy. Webb, I fancy, is a good deal
such a boy is [as] Lorenzo was. He is to be seen driving some soldier's team or
riding whenever there is a chance. Lucy will probably leave in a fortnight or
so, probably about the time we go to Charleston.
The new conscription law strikes me as a capital measure. I
hope it will be judiciously and firmly administered.
I have an offer for my Hamilton property one thousand
dollars cash, one thousand dollars in six months, and the balance of fifteen
hundred in three equal annual payments. Before the war I would have taken it
quickly enough, but I am not sure now but the real estate is best. It pays
taxes and about one hundred dollars a year rent. What could I do with the
money?
Sincerely,
R. B. Hayes.
S. BIRCHARD.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 393
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