CEDAR CREEK,
November 2, 1864.
DEAR UNCLE: — We are
waiting for the fall rains and the Presidential election before
withdrawing for the season. A drizzle today gives us hope that our work is
almost over for this year. I am more impatient than usual to see my family.
The campaign, if it
closes now, will remain a most satisfactory one. I have only one drawback. I
fear that Captain Hastings, my adjutant-general, will die of the
wound got at Winchester, September 19. He is a man of the
Rogers and Jesse Stem stamp. I can't bear to lose him, but his chance
is less from day to day. - My health is excellent as usual.
Sincerely,
R.
S. BIRCHARD.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 532
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