Cold and raw all day. First snow fell this evening. General
Crook gave me a pair of his brigadier-general shoulder-straps this
afternoon. A rank cheapened by poor appointments. I feel it an honor, conferred
as it is at the close of a bloody campaign on the
recommendation of General Crook approved by General Sheridan.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of
Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 545
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