Camp White, January 24, 1864
Dear Uncle: —
The extension of the bounties and postponement of the draft will postpone my
visit home a week or two. I shall not leave here probably before the second
week in February.
We are all very well. It is very lonesome here now. All the
Twenty-third company officers but four or five are at home, half of the men,
besides a good many of all other organizations hereabouts. Recruiting seems to
be progressing favorably. I trust we shall have stronger and more efficient
armies in the field this spring than ever before. I think it likely that the
Rebels with their unsparing conscription of young and old will for a time
outnumber us again. But a few weeks' campaigning will send to the rear the old
men and boys in vast numbers.
I am growing anxious to see Birch and his mother talks of
him constantly.
Sincerely,
R. B. Hayes.
S. Birchard.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 450
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