[May] 27. Friday. — Read Colonel Gilbert’s pamphlet on Governor Brough’s rule as to promotion. I do not quarrel with it as a general rule, but Colonel Gilbert and the Forty-fourth should have had their officers as desired. To make such a rule inflexible is very foolish.
Rutherford B. Hayes.
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