Camp White, December 4, 1863.
Dear Uncle: —
Lucy and I have considered your bulletin announcing your determination to hold
Birch. I now write to give you fair warning that the Twenty-third has
re-enlisted for the war. We are entitled therefore under a late order to be
furloughed in a body. One company has gone to Ohio already, and more are
preparing to go as soon as the situation here will allow. Now, if you want war
we can give it to you. I can take companies enough of veteran volunteers to
recapture our boy. So be on your guard.
We are threatened with a Rebel invasion again. If they don't
come after us it looks now as if we should go after them. When this is over our
men will generally go home, and I am pretty likely to go also. About the last
of this month or early in January if matters go well I shall probably visit
you. All well here.
Let Birch write to his Grandma Hayes as often as he is
disposed to write at all. She is very much pleased with his letters. —
Good-bye.
R. B. Hayes.
S. BlRCHARD.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 446-7
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