Camp White, March 26, 1864.
Dear Mother: —
We are now having a cold rain-storm, but are all well. There is considerable
sickness among our new recruits of the usual sort — measles, mumps, and a
little smallpox and fever. Nothing very serious so far, and as the weather gets
warmer we hope to get clear of it altogether.
Mrs. Ellen, a nice lady, wife of our quartermaster, is
teaching the two smaller boys regularly and speaks very encouragingly of her
scholars. Lucy schools the larger boy with a young soldier who is a good deal
older than Birch, but not so far advanced. . . .
I hope you will get through the raw weather of spring
without serious illness. — Love to all.
Affectionately, your
son,
R.
Mrs. Sophia Hayes.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 452
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