CUMBERLAND,
MARYLAND, March 2, 1865.
DEAR UNCLE:— It is a
rainy, dismal day. General Hancock is in command of this Department.
Sheridan has collected all his cavalry, and it is on a big raid to
cut and slash the railroads west of Richmond, or to capture
Gordonsville, or something of the sort. I doubt whether we see any
more battles. I shall consider myself discharged as soon as my four years are
up and Richmond taken. I shall be surprised if the latter does not
occur first.
Great preparations
are making for the inauguration. If nothing disastrous happens
to our armies, it will be the greatest thing of the sort that
ever has been witnessed in the country. Write often.
Sincerely,
R. B. HAYES.
S. BIRCHARD.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary
and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 562-3
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