Still raining. Went
over to Mr. Hancock's, intending to cross Wartrace at a bridge above but gave
it out as it was pouring down rain. Found Charley Pellam there at Mr. H's.
SOURCE: Ephraim
Shelby Dodd, Diary of Ephraim Shelby Dodd: Member of Company D Terry's
Texas Rangers, p. 8
All start this
morning for Camp, find the wagons close to Fairfield, the Regiment three miles
further on. I was sent after corn over the highest mountain in the country as
soon as I got in.
SOURCE: Ephraim
Shelby Dodd, Diary of Ephraim Shelby Dodd: Member of Company D Terry's
Texas Rangers, p. 9
Moved Camp out near
Beech Grove. I and Polk Kyle sent on forage, bought a stack of hay. Staid all
night with Mr. Carlisle.
SOURCE: Ephraim
Shelby Dodd, Diary of Ephraim Shelby Dodd: Member of Company D Terry's
Texas Rangers, p. 9
COLUMBUS, November 4, 1869.
Honorable Richard M. Corwine, of Cincinnati, Ohio, is a lawyer of large experience, whose practice in the higher courts of the State and of the United States for many years has given him wide reputation. He has devoted himself to his profession almost without interruption more than twenty-five years. Whatever qualifications for the discharge of important judicial duties can be acquired by a gentleman of intellect, of excellent temper and manners, and of great industry, may be justly claimed for Mr. Corwine.
R. B. HAYES.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 67
COLUMBUS, OHIO, November 8, 1869.
DEAR CORWINE: You have the joke on me if I have not on you. The word to my eye is plainly judicial not political. Either my writing or your reading is greatly at fault.
I can say nothing further as yet. Indeed, I feel some embarrassment may arise in doing so much as I have. I trust my letter will not be used or mentioned, if it does not seem necessary to do it. It is strictly within my rule and perfectly proper, but others might not so see it.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 67-8
COLUMBUS, OHIO, November 6, 1869.
DEAR GENERAL: My
wife and I both wish to say thank you for the beautiful pictures [reproductions
of paintings in European galleries]. They are so fine that I want to be able to
talk about them—how they are done; where are the originals; whose? etc., etc. I
am told that a negative is obtained from the painting by the ordinary process,
that the negative is retouched, and these pictures printed from the improved
negative.
The next time I meet
you I propose to hear you on your trip. So try not [to] forget it altogether.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 68
COLUMBUS, OHIO, November 7, 1869.
MY DEAR WEBB: Yesterday one of the teachers in the public schools tried an interesting experiment in the rotunda of the State House. He suspended an iron ball weighing twenty pounds by a fine wire from the top of the dome and by letting it swing as a pendulum demonstrated very satisfactorily that the earth moves from the west to the east. The wire had to be one hundred and twenty feet long to reach from the dome to the floor. A line was drawn on the floor due north and south and the ball set to swinging directly over the line. In an hour the line of the ball's motion was nine degrees variant from the north and south line, showing that in forty hours the variation would go clear around the circle. It was a curious demonstration, but while everybody saw the result, only a few seemed to fully comprehend it.
I have a large number of the coats of arms of the States cut from the letters I get. If you want them I'll send them to you. You must always write with ink. You forgot to give the year in dating your last letter. Your letter as a whole was very well written. - Ruddy and your mother send love to you and Birch.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 68-9
COLUMBUS, OHIO, November 7, 1869.
DEAR COLONEL:—Thanks for your call and pencil note at Cincinnati. I was sorry not to see you. I wanted to hear your talk—not more than I always do,—and as I am not likely to meet you often, I now want to know where you are to settle, if you do settle, that I can have the next best thing to your talk—your writings.
Judging by our last conversation, for pecuniary and other reasons you prefer a position to being merely a disturbing element; but as I see it, the latter is your vocation a vocation in which you can do great things in the present political, religious, social, etc., etc.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 69
COLUMBUS, OHIO, November 8, 1869.
DEAR GENERAL:—I congratulate you back again [—on your election to the state Senate]. Some enemy of yours reported that you would be badly beaten in any event. But I didn't believe it. I agree with you. Our lines didn't fall in the right years. The "off years," as Greeley calls them, are bad years to run for office.
The missionary story is out of whole cloth. I went to church like a good Christian on the Sunday I was reported to be ploughing with the Hamilton County Reform Members and didn't see one of them. Bishop Thompson preached a capital discourse on the text, "Be ye faithful to the end and I will give you a crown of life," or words to that effect. If you had heard it you wouldn't have thought of that infamous suspicion that I was imitating Sam Cary because I quoted scripture in my Thanksgiving proclamation. Hassaurek says the Reformers will be with us on the Fifteenth Amendment. I think so too. Lew Campbell, it is said, boasts that he will prevent the ratification in the Senate, but as both of the Reformers are perfectly sound I suppose it is safe.
Kind regards to Mrs. Potts.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 69-70
COLUMBUS, OHIO, November 9, 1869.
DEAR SIR: I am in receipt of your favor of the 6th inst. in relation to the appointment of State Librarian, and in reply I must frankly say that, as at present advised, the incumbent will at the end of his term be reappointed. If I had an opportunity to talk with you face to face I would go into the reasons for this course. I recognize the validity of your claims and under other circumstances would be glad to give them a favorable hearing.
Supposing your letters may be of value to you, I respectfully return them.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 70
COLUMBUS, OHIO, November 10, 1869.
DEAR NORDHOFF: You are not the only "wretch" (I have adopted that good word from you) who harrows up the feelings of my wife by sending the Harper's picture of me. It has driven me into the photograph business and I am now jawing back in this way.
I want to send Walter "The President's Words" the book of Lincoln's wisdom, I named to you. How—by express or mail, and direction?
I have not seen Aunty Davis since your article on the Bible question. I fear she will think you have gone back on her hopes of you. I take the Bible side, largely because this war on the Good Book is in disguise a war on all free schools.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 70-1
COLUMBUS, OHIO, November 10, 1869.
DEAR SIR: I am in receipt of your note of the 8th. I agree with you as to the importance of securing a fire-proof building for the library. It seems to me so important that I would not wait until the society can build or purchase such rooms. Can't a room that would answer the purpose be rented? I, however, ought not to make suggestions. My income does not permit me to do more than pay the ten dollars assessment in aid of the society's object. I would be glad to do more if I could.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 71
COLUMBUS, OHIO, November 11, 1869.
MY DEAR SIR:—I am in receipt of your favor of the 9th in relation to the claims of Mr. Forster and Dr. Morton. I had some knowledge of the merits of Mr. Forster's application and have written two letters in his behalf. In reply to one I was told that consulates are all gobbled up long ago— that his only chance is the resignation or death of the present incumbents; and you know "few die and none resign.”
As to Dr. Morton, I know him well, but I suppose Mr. Harbough, who is a faithful good officer, ought not to be turned out. If more letters or good words in behalf of Mr. Forster are wanted, I am ready to furnish them. But as Mr. Lincoln said, when he was President: "I have very little influence with this Administration."
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 71
COLUMBUS, OHIO, November 13, 1869.
DEAR SAGE: I am in receipt of yours of yesterday. I will send you reports of [the] Ohio Penitentiary and Reform Farm. No report of Girls' Reformatory yet made. But the rules adopted may answer your purpose and I will try to get them for you. They were approved by me as the law required and were in the handwriting of Judge M—— [Matthews (?)].
I have the Thanksgiving proclamations of twenty-seven States all recognizing religion, nearly all the religion of the Bible, and several the Divinity of Christ. More are coming, doubtless. Our Legislature for many years has passed a joint resolution annually authorizing a thanksgiving and frequently in terms which recognized the religion of the Bible. The last Legislature omitted to do so by a mere accident this year, but in [the] Sixty-fifth volume Ohio Laws, page 306, passed one last year. If you wish to borrow my bundle of Thanksgiving proclamations I will send them to you. All state institutions have religious exercises, some of them chaplains paid under state laws. The meetings of the two houses of the General Assembly are always opened with prayer in accordance, sometimes, with resolutions (passed unanimously usually), and sometimes by common consent. The inaugurations of governors are prefaced by religious exercises.
The general proposition on which you stand is undoubtedly sound. Whether your particular relief can be granted by a court is perhaps doubtful; and if you are beaten I am not sure but the question will go before the committee in a better form for a final and correct decision by the people without the intervention of the courts in opposition to the late action of the School Board than it will with such intervention. But if I can aid you, call on me.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 72
we marched
SOURCE: Bartlett Yancey Malone, The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone, p. 20
we got to our camp clost to Richmond
SOURCE: Bartlett Yancey Malone, The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone, p. 20
The 26 day of May was a nice one but about 12 oclock in the night it comenced raining very hard And about 1 oclock we was rousted up and did expect to attack the Yankees about day but it rained so hard we did not go
SOURCE: Bartlett Yancey Malone, The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone, p. 20
And the 27 day it rained till about 10 oclock and then cleard off And about 3 oclock in the eavning the fight comenced down about Hanover Coathouse we surposed but we was not cauld out And I was promoted today to fourth Corporel
SOURCE: Bartlett Yancey Malone, The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone, p. 20
The 28 day was clear and about a hour befour the sun set we left our camp And march all night down toward Hanover Coathouse And we past in about three hundred yards of the Yankeys pickets And then we stopt and rested about 3 hours And about 8 oclock the next day we started back and went about 5 or 6 miles and stopt for the night
SOURCE: Bartlett Yancey Malone, The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone, p. 20
we went back in about a mile and a half of Richmond and staid thar all night
SOURCE: Bartlett Yancey Malone, The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone, p. 20
