The Twenty-third
Ohio, Colonel Scammon, will be here to-morrow. Stanley Matthews is the
lieutenant-colonel of this regiment, and my old friend, Rutherford B. Hayes,
the major. The latter is an accomplished gentleman, graduate of Harvard Law
School, and will, it is said, in all probability, succeed
Gurley in Congress.
Matthews has a fine reputation as a speaker and lawyer, and, I have been told,
is the most promising young man in Ohio. Scammon is a West Pointer.
SOURCE: John
Beatty, The Citizen-soldier: Or, Memoirs of a Volunteer, p. 64-5
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