CLEVELAND, July 30,
1865.
DEAR LUCY:— The
Twenty-third goes out in fine feather. Perhaps no regiment from Ohio is so fortunate
in its reception and last days. I wish you could have been here. We rode in the
procession yesterday to the dedication [of the monument to the dead of the
regiment]. Hastings, Miss Hastings, and Mrs. Comly in the carriage I was
in-next after the band.
Mother [Webb] and
Joe go tomorrow to Niagara. On return they go to see the boys [Birchard and
Webb] at Fremont. Boys very happy there and very good, the cause of happiness
to others.
As ever, darling, your
R.
MRS. HAYES.
SOURCE: Charles
Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard
Hayes, Volume 3, p. 2-3
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