SEMINARY (Sunday), Feb. 16, 1861. . . . I have been busy all day in making up accounts and papers and packing up. I shall leave here on Tu...

Nothing new. All secession here, and I am suspect. I am quite well and impatient to be off. SOURCE: Walter L. Fleming,  General W.T. Sherm...

SEMINARY, January  27 , 1861. . . . Since my last I have three letters from you. . . The mails have been much disordered by a break on the...

SEMINARY, Feb. 1, 1861.  . . . I suppose you are impatient to hear what next. Last night I got full letters from Baton Rouge. Governor Moo...

SEMINARY, Jan. 20, 1861. Here is another Sunday. I have written you often enough of late to keep you in a perfect state of uneasiness, but...

[January, 1861.]  . . . Louisiana will surely secede this month, but no hostile movements will take place for some time, and about the 4th...

LOUISIANA STATE SEMINARY                     of Learning and Military Academy,           Alexandria, Jan. 5, 1861.  . . . I have finished my...

ALEXANDRIA, Jan. 8, 1861.  . . . Things are moving along with the rapidity of revolutions. The papers announce that the people of Alabama ...

SEMINARY, Jan. 13, 1861.  . . . I see no change to note here in public sentiment, the fact that Seward has been named as secretary of stat...

Jan. 16, 1860.  . . . The people born and bred in the North are more enthusiastic in this revolution than the natives to the soil. If yo...

ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 23, 1860. We are having a cold raw day and I avail myself of it to do a good deal of indoor work. I was out for some hour...

ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 26, 1860.  . . . I commenced writing a letter last night to Minnie, but a friend sent us out a newspaper of New Orleans, ...

ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 29, 1860.  . . . This is a holiday, thanksgiving and prayer, but holidays and Sundays are my worst days, as then the cade...

December 15[?], 1860. . . . I started to write a letter to Minnie but got drawn into this political strain that is not for her but you. Re...

ALEXANDRIA, Dec. 18, 1860. . . . I cannot remain here much beyond January 23, the time set for the state convention to dissolve the connec...

ALEXANDRIA, Dec. 23, 1860. . . . There certainly are symptoms of a general breaking up or dissolution of all government everywhere. The pe...

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 ...

ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 10, 1860. . . . We have had a week of cold rains but it has cleared off, and to-day is bright and warm. I am going into t...

ALEXANDRIA, July 10 ,  1860. . . . I feel little interest in politics and certainly am glad to see it realized that politicians can't ...

LOUISIANA STATE SEMINARY, ALEXANDRIA, May 23, 1860. DEAR GENERAL: . . . Paid for the straw hats, and all outstanding matters, leaving me e...