What a week it has been — madness, sadness, anxiety, turmoil, ceaseless excitement. The Wigfalls passed through on their way to Texas. We d...

macon , Sept. 4th, 1864. . . . I have no news to give you and must confess that things just at present look rather blue. The intelligen...

macon , July 11th, 1864. . . . You see by the heading of my letter that already we have been forced to leave Atlanta — not that it has ...

Dec. 15th, 1863. I have passed many anxious months lately, in this siege of Charleston. My only child and son was at Fort Sumter, a Fir...

Gen. Hood is in town and Dr. Darby has gone to Europe to procure a leg for the General with the money contributed by the Texas Brigade. Gen...

charlottesville , Nov. 26th, 1863. . . . We hear to-night that the Army is to move, it is thought to Fredericksburg. The news from ...

camp At Manassas , Oct. 16, 1863. Dear L., I wrote to Mama on the 13th a few lines which I hope she received. We have been marching ...

camp Near Fox's Ford, rappahannock River , Oct. 13, 1863. Dear Mama. We are once more on the campaign. We had a running fight d...

hd. Qrs. Cov., Div. A. of N. Va. Dear General, I regret very much that a state of affairs, so different from what you expected, exis...

charlottesville , July 22nd. As you see this was written before I had heard of the return of our Army to Va. . . . Your father returned...

orange C. H ., July 16th, 1863. It is some time since I have written to you, my dearest son, but the uncertainty of your getting letter...

We are all excited by the news that came yesterday. Owing to the weather or fear of the trains being taken, we have had no mails from Richm...

July 8th. We are now near Funkstown. Young Winston is going over the river this morning and may go as far as Hanover. Everything is wet...

Rector's X Road , June 18th, 1863. Dear Mama, I have written L. twice in the last two weeks and the reason I did not write you a...

orange C. H ., June 27th, 1863. . . . I was very glad to get your note of the 18th June, and only wish I knew where you were now. We ar...

richmond , May 15th. . . . Lieut. J. called to see Mama and delivered both the letter and the overcoat. The letter was by far the most ...

I send you, with our letters, a pound of candy and a box of Guava jelly which was given me. I know you have no sugar, and I have no doubt t...

I have just come up from witnessing the funeral procession of dear “old Stonewall.” I never saw a more solemn scene and hope never to see a...

May 11th, 1863. We are all saddened to the heart to-night by hearing the death of our hero Jackson! In addition to our own irreparable ...

February, 1863. Your father has gone to introduce Burke (the scout) to Mr. Seddon. He wanted to know the Secretary of War and to tell h...