Read Colonel Gilbert's pamphlet on Governor Brough's rule as
to promotion. I do not quarrel with it as a general rule, but Colonel Gilbert
and the Forty-fourth should have had their officers as desired. To make such a
rule inflexible is very foolish.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 467
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