Saturday, October 3, 2015

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Wednesday March 5, 1862

Fayetteville, Virginia. — Snow, raw weather. Rode with Dr. Joe four or five miles. The new horse doesn't seem to care for pistol firing. Open-air exercise agrees with me so well that I often feel as if an indoor life was unworthy of manhood; outdoor exercise for health I Read news of the 28th and [March] 1, Cincinnati. Rebel papers afford good reading these days.

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 203

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