Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Governor Rutherford B. Hayes to General ________, April 15, 1869

COLUMBUS, April 15, 1869.

DEAR GENERAL:— The Fifth Virginia was commanded by Colonel Zigler until about 1863, then by Colonel Tomlinson until the end of its first term of enlistment, and in 1864 reenlisted and became the First West Virginia Veteran Volunteers under Colonel Wm. H. Enochs. Its men would naturally claim the veteran regiment to be the same as the former Fifth, as it was principally composed of the officers and men of the Fifth, consolidated with the Ninth however.

Sincerely,
R. B. HAYES.
[Unidentified.]

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 60

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