August 2, 1862. Saturday. — . . . From General Cox I hear that I can’t send captains on recruiting service. This disappoints Captains Drake and Sperry. I have named Lieutenants Avery and Hastings. I also learn that I can’t go home to recruit the Seventy-ninth Regiment whose colonel I am to be if and if. Well I don’t care much. I should never find such a regiment as the Twenty-third.
Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes.
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