CINCINNATI, June 5, 1861.
DEAR UNCLE:–I have received your letter of the 3rd. Am sorry to have disappointed you last Saturday. Shall try to come soon. I have just had a call from Buckland, ¹ and went with him to the Burnet House and saw Miss Annie and Ralph.
A dispatch in the Commercial indicates that we are having better luck at Washington than at Columbus. If the authorities at Columbus do not interfere, we are likely to get in our regiment. We had a letter from Governor Chase a few days [ago], which encouraged us to hope that such would be the case.
Mother will probably go to Columbus next week or the week after. If the Commercial correspondent is correct, we shall probably be pretty busy for a few days or a week. I will advise you as soon as anything definite is known.
Sincerely,
R. B. HAYES.
S. BIRCHARD.
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¹Ralph P. Buckland, of Fremont, Hayes’s old law partner, later a general. Always a leading citizen.