Camp Reynolds, Near Gauley, Virginia , January 4, 1863. Dear Uncle : — First of all, my arm gives me no trouble at all ordinarily. Gett...

It is now as hot and sultry as it was ever my lot to witness. The cloudy weather and recent rains make everything damp and sticky. We don...

Well, this has been an interesting day, a great surprise; have been treated with great consideration — like a prince — by the board, and I ...

Cincinnati , November 12, 1862. Dear Uncle : — Your letter, also the apples, came safely to hand. The apples were finer than usual. The...

Cincinnati , November 8, 1862. Dear Uncle : — Lucy and I came down Tuesday and are now comfortably home again. My arm improves rapidly,...

Columbus , October 31, 1862. Dear Uncle : — Lucy has had a pretty severe attack of diphtheria. For three or four days she was in a good...

Columbus , October 23, 1862. Dear Uncle : — Laura married and off yesterday — all sensible and happy. We had a delightful visit to the ...

Middletown, October 1, 1862. Dear Uncle : — Lucy is here; we are rather enjoying it. The rascally arm is very uncertain; sometimes I t...

Went to see Dr. Thayer about getting my leave extended about 10 o'clock a. m.; found him at his house but cranky; would not, to my surp...

It has seemed a long day; have been in the village all day; called on Charley French; wound fairly easy today. Pert, Hattie Glover and I we...

Begin to mend a little. SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor,  Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes , Volume 2, p. 358...

Middletown, Maryland , September 18,1862, (P. M.) Dear Mother : — I am steadily getting along. For the most part, the pain is not sever...

Enemy on a spur of Blue Ridge, three and one-half miles west. At 7 A. M. we go out to attack. I am sent with [the] Twenty-third up a mounta...

It snowed nearly all the forenoon. In the afternoon it was quite comfortable; thawed considerable, but night still finds the ground covered...

Well, I wonder if winter's come! It has rained and snowed all day; face badly swollen today, but my jaws don't ache much for which ...

Snowed all day; seems quiet after such an exciting life in the army. Mr. Lyman Drury brought Pert down this evening. Byron Bradley writes t...

[At] Captain Rudy's (Jacob Rudy, merchant), Middletown, Maryland. Here I lie nursing my shattered arm, "as snug as a bug in a rug....

Middletown , September 16, 1862. Dear Mother : — It would make you very happy about me if you could see how pleasantly and comfortably ...

Middletown, Frederick County, Maryland, September 15, [1862]. Dear Mother : — I was wounded in the battle yesterday. A musket-ball pa...

A cold night for the season; froze quite hard; snow on the ground this morning; don't seem much like Virginia climate; weather much mod...