Camp White, (Sunday), November 1, 1863.
Dear Mother: —
It is a lovely morning. I have just got into new quarters, two tents together
on a stockade, making two good little rooms with a coal stove. As cozy as need
be. . . .
We had preaching in our camp last Sunday by the chaplain of the
Thirty-fourth, Mr. Collier, a rather entertaining speaker, and have been
promised meetings every other Sunday hereafter. It is so unusual a thing that
the novelty makes it attractive, if there were nothing else to recommend it. .
. .
Affectionately, your
son,
Rutherford.
Mrs. Sophia Hayes.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 443-4
