CAMP HASTINGS, March
21, 1865.
DEAREST: – You would
have boiled over with enjoyment if you had been here today. General Crook came
out to my quarters. Both bands were out and all the men. We had about
forty rousing cheers, a speech from Chaplain Collier, a good talk from the
general, a little one from me, and lots of fun. It is four weeks today since
the capture.
We are having the
finest possible time. The Twenty-third is not camped with me now. It is two and
one-half miles off in the prettiest camp they ever had the other side of town.
But the brigade is a unit now. The mountain scenery is glorious; the men
happy and well behaved. Chaplain Little and his wife get up something good at
the log chapel daily.
We have an old
fellow, hard-looking and generally full of liquor, who brings in our wood and
builds fires of the Thirteenth. He says, “I was glad to see old Uncle George."
MRS. HAYES.
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