[Tuesday evening, January 10, Hayes started for Ohio by railway. He reached the Ohio River the next day at Benwood and there took a steamer, filled with “oil or petroleum speculators,” for Parkersburg. He arrived at Chillicothe January 12, where he found Mrs. Hayes afflicted with rheumatism. A month was spent in Ohio with wife and children at Chillicothe and in visits to relatives and friends at Columbus, Delaware, Fremont, and Cincinnati. He was back at Cumberland, Thursday, February 9.]
Rutherford B. Hayes.
Previous post: Downing’s Civil War Diary.–Alexander G. Downing.
Next post: War Diary of Luman Harris Tenney
