Camp Reynolds, February 8, 1863.
Dear Uncle: — Your tracts came yesterday and were distributed. They will do instead of sermons today. Lucy and the boys are enjoying it much. They add much to our happiness this bad weather.
I shall go with [the] Twenty-third to Charleston in a few weeks. We are pretty well thinned out — only three old regiments left. Lucy says she thinks the Rebels can’t get her. I am not so sure. She rode outside of the lines four or five miles yesterday.
Sincerely,
R. B. Hayes.
