Robert Lincoln and the military

[RJNorton]

I think Robert spent some time running errands and escorting guests to their destinations.

Trying to be humorous about his military life at City Point Robert wrote a letter to John Hay on March 14, 1865:

"I was sitting here on my lovely watch, (that is figurative; my watch is really in my vest pocket & not in the seat of my breeches), thinking cusses that I was not in my couch. Just why I ain't is because Kelly and Crook got took off by a Cavalry raid sometime ago and because the sentries will go to sleep sometimes...They have lots of pretty girls down here lately....If you want to do a favor send some more and oblige."