Monday, April 4, 2022

Brigadier-General Rutherford B. Hayes to Sophia Birchard Hayes, April 3, 1865

Camp HASTINGS, April 3, 1865.

DEAR MOTHER: — I am to have a new command in Hancock's Corps. Either veterans or a brigade of new Ohio troops. I shall probably prefer the latter, as it is not likely to continue a great while. I leave Cumberland tomorrow. The new command is near Harpers Ferry. Letters addressed to me via Harpers Ferry will reach me.

Affectionately,
R.
MRS. SOPHIA HAYES.

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 570-1

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