Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: 1861-1865Ohio State Archæological and Historical Society, 1922 - United States |
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Page 495 - Your suggestion about getting a furlough to take the stump was certainly made without reflection. An officer fit for duty who at this crisis would abandon his post to electioneer for a seat in Congress ought to be scalped.
Page 438 - Please convey to the battalion my heartfelt thanks and assure each and all that if in after years they call on me or mine and mention that they were of the Thirteenth Regulars when...
Page 288 - We are well and doing well at this present time and hope these few lines will find you enjoying the same blessing.
Page 13 - I would prefer to go into it if I knew I was to die or be killed in the course of it than to live through and after it without taking any part in it.
Page 352 - While I was lying down I had considerable talk with a wounded [Confederate] soldier lying near me. I gave him messages for my wife and friends in case I should not get up. We were right jolly and friendly; it was by no means an unpleasant experience.
Page 113 - ... charm.1 Camp Tompkins, October 19, 1861. — I got your letter of last Sunday yesterday. You can't be happier in reading my letters than I am in reading yours. . . . Don't worry about suffering soldiers and don't be too ready to give up President Lincoln. More men are sick in camps than at home; sick are not comfortable anywhere, and less so in armies than in good homes. Transportation fails, roads are bad, contractors are faithless, officials negligent or fraudulent, but, notwithstanding all...
Page 458 - Altogether, this is our finest experience in the war, and General Crook is the best general we have ever served under, not excepting Rosecrans.
Page 114 - ... a private, and I am well dressed ; I live habitually on soldier's rations, and I live well It is the poor families at home, not. the soldiers, who can justly claim sympathy. I except, of course, the regiments which have bad officers Government is sending enough, if colonels would only do their part We have sickness, which is bad enough, but it is due to causes inseparable from our condition.
Page 334 - Banks and Schenck are praised by them. General McDowell is universally denounced. General Pope is coldly spoken of. General McClellan is undoubtedly a great favorite with [the] men under him. Last night it was announced that he was again in command at this, the critical region now. Everywhere the joy was great, and was spontaneously and uproariously expressed. It was a happy army again. There is nothing of the defeated or disheartened among the men. They are vexed and angry — say they ought to...