Friday, January 28, 2022

Brigadier-General Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, February 17, 1865

CUMBERLAND, MARYLAND, February 17, 1865.

Dear UNCLE:- I send for safe keeping my original appointment as brigadier-general. It was confirmed by the Senate a few days ago.

No movements here. It seems to be the expectation that Lee will attempt something desperate to get out of the net forming around him. We are having a gay time. Balls, etc., of the fastest sort are common.

Sincerely,
R. B. HAYES.
S. BIRCHARD.

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 559

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