[ST. LOUIS, MO.] My visit South was in every sense agreeable. My old friends in Alexandria did all they could to make us welcome, and I wa...

LOUISIANA STATE SEMINARY, May 1, 1866. GENERAL W. T. SHERMAN,           United States America. Dear General: Your most welcome favor of 12 ...

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 23, 1861. DEAR MR. BOYD: I fear from our experience here the cadets did not have a good time of it last night. It rained...

[Continued from Francis W. Smith to William T. Sherman, March 1, 1861 ] SATURDAY. I was interrupted just at this point and recommence my l...

OFFICE ST. LOUIS RAILROAD COMPANY, St. Louis, April 4 ,  1861 . MY DEAR FRIEND: I promised you all to keep you advised of my whereabouts t...

St. Louis, May 13, 1861. MY DEAR FRIEND: I have been intending for a long while to answer your last very kind letter. I suppose you still ...

LANCASTER, O., Sept. 7, 1860. DEAR BOYD: I am still here, but already a little tired at "nothing to do” and therefore for want of bet...

NORFOLK, September 9, 1860. MY DEAR BOYD: Your letter was received today and though much of its news has been anticipated by advices from ...

LANCASTER, Ohio, Sept. 16, 1860. MY DEAR FRIEND: I came up from Cincinnati last evening, whither I had gone to prove the sheets of our reg...

September 27, 1860. I am much obliged to you for the copy of your brother's speech. It is an able production and marks him, as he had ...

LANCASTER, OHIO, Sept. 30, 1860. MY DEAR FRIEND: I am much obliged to your letters which have kept me easy. Time now begins to approach the...

LANCASTER, O., Oct. 3, 1860. MY DEAR FRIEND: It is all-important the bedding, stationery, and textbooks, [and] your library books should al...

ST. CHARLES HOTEL, New Orleans, Monday, Oct. 15, 1860. DEAR BOYD: I arrived yesterday. This morning find that a part of our bedding has be...

 LOUISIANA STATE SEMINARY, Aug. 5, 1860. Sir: By virtue of authority vested in me by resolution of the Board of Supervisors, I hereby dele...

LANCASTER, O. (Monday), Aug. 13, 1860. MY DEAR FRIEND: I arrived here yesterday morning, and found my family well. I left Miss Whittington i...

WASHINGTON, D.C., Sunday, Aug. 19, 1860. DEAR MR. BOYD: I wrote you from Lancaster. I left there last Wednesday reached here Thursday even...

LANCASTER, Ohio, Aug. 30, 1860. MY DEAR FRIEND: I am just in receipt of your letter of 18th and Mr. Manning's enclosing the amended re...

LANCASTER, OHIO, Aug. 30, 1860. DEAR GENERAL: I wrote you and Mr. Whittington from Washington of my entire success in procuring a full and...

LOUISIANA STATE SEMINARY OF LEARNING AND MILITARY ACADEMY, Alexandria, Aug. 30, 1860. SIR: . . . Altho' nothing new has transpired here,...

Seminary Of Learning , Alexandria, Dec. 15,1859. My DEAR SIR: . . . I wrote you some time ago, addressed to Mount Lebanon, advising you...