Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Brigadier-General Rutherford B. Hayes to Laura Platt Mitchell, May 9, 1865

WASHINGTON, D. C., May 9, 1865.

DEAR LAURA:— I suppose from what I hear of your gallant husband that he will be here in a few days. I guess also that after the grand doings of the army, when it gets here, that he will resign, as I mean to do, and go home. Now, why shouldn't our wives come after us? I hereby empower you to order Lucy to come with you to Washington about the 20th or 25th. Write me what you think of it.

Affectionately,
R.
MRS. LAURA MITCHELL,
        Columbus.

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 582

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