[Continued from letter of November 30, 1864.]
December 2. — You would have enjoyed being here yesterday. It
was a fine warm day and we moved camp. One division of the
Sixth Corps left to go south via Washington, perhaps to Grant. We moved our
camp about a mile over to their ground. We are getting well fixed again. We
hauled over our flooring and bunks, and they left a great
deal of material, so we rather made by the change.
Your little letter pleased me very much. If you study hard you will soon
be able to write a good long one. Give my love to Grandma, “the
Little Soldier," and all the rest of your friends. If
I don't get home by New Year's, you must write me about the
holidays. — Good-bye.
Chillicothe.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of
Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 541-2
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