HARRISONBURG, VIRGINIA,
September 29, P. M., 1864.
DEAREST:—The cavalry
and part of our infantry are in Staunton and on the road to Gordonsville. They
are merely keeping up the big scare. The Sixth and Nineteenth Corps are eight
miles on the Staunton Road. We are enjoying ourselves. We rather expect and
prefer to start back towards Winchester soon, but we know nothing.
I write so often
these days because I feel anxious about you and because I am uncertain about
the delivery of my letters within our lines. — Love to all. Much for your own
private self, my darling.
Affectionately, your
R.
P.S. — It is now
universally conceded in this army that Crook and his men did it.
MRS. HAYES.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams,
editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2,
p. 518-9
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