May 26. — Just received your welcome letters of the 6th and
14th. Very glad you are so fortunate. Write to Uncle and Mother when you feel
like it.
We shall start soon — perhaps in the morning. We take only
one wagon to a regiment. The Fifth is now coming into camp. The general is
pleased with Colonel Tomlinson's conduct and Colonel Tomlinson will remain. The
Thirteenth will be here tonight. All my brigade together. The rest of the
Thirty-sixth is here, six hundred and fifty in all. We feel well about the
future. General Crook is more hopeful than ever before.
You need not believe the big stories of great victories or
defeats at Richmond. But I think we shall gradually overcome them.
Good-bye, darling,
R.
Mrs. Hayes.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 466
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