ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 3,
1860.
. . . This is a
Saturday evening and I am seated at the office table where the Academic Board
has been all week examining cadets. We have admitted in all some eighty; and
rejected about a dozen for want of the elementary knowledge required for
admission. Tonight, Saturday, we close the business, and on Monday recitations
begin. Still many more will straggle in, and I expect we will settle down to
about a hundred and twenty, less than we had reason to expect, but quite enough
for comfort. . .
People here now talk
as though disunion was a fixed thing. Men of property say that as this constant
feeling of danger of abolitionism exists they would rather try a Southern
Confederacy. Louisiana would not secede, but should South Carolina secede I
fear other Southern States will follow, and soon general anarchy will prevail.
I say but little, try and mind my own business and await the issue of events. .
.
The country is very
poor and nothing can be bought here but stewed beef and pork, vegetables are
out of the question save potatoes at about five dollars the barrel.
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