{"id":11496,"date":"2021-04-19T03:00:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T08:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=3075"},"modified":"2021-04-15T09:21:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T14:21:35","slug":"rutherford-b-hayes-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/rutherford-b-hayes-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Rutherford B. Hayes put his foot down about going into &#8220;this movement,&#8221; but if the war is to go on &#8220;thousands will be dragged into it who would now not contemplate doing so.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">COLUMBUS, April 19, 1861.<\/p>\n<p>DEAR UNCLE:\u2013I came up last night to help Dr. James Webb get a place as surgeon, and for other purposes not war- like. The doctor left for the East as assistant surgeon of [the] Second Regiment with the soldiers this morning. I shall return home on [the] next train.<\/p>\n<p>At the first, I put down my foot that I would not think of going into this first movement. This, of course, I shall stick to; but if this war is [to] go on, it is obvious that sooner or later thousands will be dragged into it who would now not contemplate doing so. Platt enjoys it hugely. So do all the old-style people who like a strong government. It took a great many delicate youngsters from our neighborhood; almost every other family on our street sent somebody\u2013Wilson Woodrow, Wright, Schooley, of our near neighbors. I saw them in their tents last night\u2013cold as Halifax, and compelled to get up at 2:30 this morning to go East. A sharp experience for tenderly reared boys.<\/p>\n<p>Come down and see us. All well here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 180px;\">Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">R. B. HAYES.<\/p>\n<p>S. BIRCHARD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLUMBUS, April 19, 1861. DEAR UNCLE:\u2013I came up last night to help Dr. James Webb get a place as surgeon, and for other purposes not war- like. The doctor left for the East as assistant surgeon of [the] Second Regiment with the soldiers this morning. I shall return home on [the] next train. At the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":93673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-diary-and-letters-of-rutherford-birchard-hayes"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Rutherford-B.-Hayes-young.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}