I am asked if I would not be gratified if my friends would
procure me promotion to a brigadier-generalship. My feeling is that I would
rather be one of the good colonels than one of the poor generals.
The colonel of a regiment has one of the most agreeable positions in the service,
and one of the most useful. “A good colonel makes a good regiment,” is an
axiom.
Two things make me sometimes think it desirable to have the
promotion, viz., the risk of having a stupid brigadier put over me, and the
difficulty and uncertainty of keeping up my regiment — that is the risk of
losing my colonelcy.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 444
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