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HAYES, Rutheford B. Autograph letter signed ("R. B. Hayes") to Col. A. A. Roud, Fremont, Ohio, 24 March 1887. 3 pages, 8vo.
A HEROINE OF THE FIELD HOSPITALS: HAYES REMEMBERS HIS WIFE'S REMARKABLE WARTIME SERVICE
"Very few ladies whose husbands were in the Service during the war," Hayes boasts to Col. Roud, "spent more time in Camp and in Hospital than Mrs. Hayes. She began in Camp Chase at Columbus where the first three-years Regiments were organized in 1861. She remained many weeks in the Camp in West Virginia attending the Hospitals daily during each subsequent year of the War. She was in the Hospitals in Maryland after South Mountain and Antietam in 1862; at the Falls of the Kanawha and Camp White Charleston West Virginia in 1863 and 1864; and in Washington in 1865. Her services were recognized by the Soldiers in many ways..."
Lucy W. Hayes (1831 - 1889), daughter of a physician and a fervent abolitionist, was instrumental in getting her husband to bolt the Whigs and join up with the Republicans in the 1850s. In addition to the heroic service her husband outlines here, Mrs. Hayes also founded the Home for Soldiers' Orphans in Xenia, Ohio. As first lady she enforced strict temperance, banning alcohol from all state dinners. She inaugurated the Easter Egg Roll tradition which continues to this day.
A HEROINE OF THE FIELD HOSPITALS: HAYES REMEMBERS HIS WIFE'S REMARKABLE WARTIME SERVICE
"Very few ladies whose husbands were in the Service during the war," Hayes boasts to Col. Roud, "spent more time in Camp and in Hospital than Mrs. Hayes. She began in Camp Chase at Columbus where the first three-years Regiments were organized in 1861. She remained many weeks in the Camp in West Virginia attending the Hospitals daily during each subsequent year of the War. She was in the Hospitals in Maryland after South Mountain and Antietam in 1862; at the Falls of the Kanawha and Camp White Charleston West Virginia in 1863 and 1864; and in Washington in 1865. Her services were recognized by the Soldiers in many ways..."
Lucy W. Hayes (1831 - 1889), daughter of a physician and a fervent abolitionist, was instrumental in getting her husband to bolt the Whigs and join up with the Republicans in the 1850s. In addition to the heroic service her husband outlines here, Mrs. Hayes also founded the Home for Soldiers' Orphans in Xenia, Ohio. As first lady she enforced strict temperance, banning alcohol from all state dinners. She inaugurated the Easter Egg Roll tradition which continues to this day.