COLUMBUS, December 20,
1869.
DEAR GENERAL:—A scoundrel in Wisconsin is trying to
blackmail me. He claims that on the morning of Sheridan's victory of
Winchester, October 19, 1864, his son deposited with me from eight hundred to
one thousand dollars, money lately received for pay and veteran bounty. The boy
was killed in the battle. It is all false, and I now desire to get the amounts
paid to the boy between January 1, 1864, and October 19, 1864. I will pay any
clerk you may set at the job of digging it up for his trouble and be greatly
obliged for a statement or certificate that I can show if necessary. The boy's
name was Nelson J. Leroy, private Company I, Twenty-third Regiment O. V. I.
Washington, D. C.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 78
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