Camp White
(opposite Charleston), West Virginia. — Last Monday, the 15th, Lucy, Mother Webb,
and “all the boys” came here from Cincinnati on the Market Boy. A few
happy days, when little Joseph sickened and died yesterday at noon (12:40).
Poor little darling! A sweet, bright boy, “looked like his father,” but with
large, handsome blue eyes much like Webb's. Teething, dysentery, and brain
affected, the diseases. He died without suffering; lay on the table in our room
in the Quarrier cottage, surrounded by white roses and buds all the afternoon,
and was sent to Cincinnati in care of Corporal Schirmes, Company K [D], this
morning. I have seen so little of him, born since the war, that I do not
realize a loss; but his mother, and still more his grandmother, lose their
little dear companion, and are very much afflicted.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of
Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 414
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