As a description of the appearance of the country in which we were settled, I here introduce a letter written at this date to a friend: CA...

SHERWOOD FOREST, VA., April 18, 1861. By my last letter from the President the convention was sitting with closed doors. The vote was prob...

Saturday evening, February 9, 1861. MY DEAR SIR: I communicated to Governor Pickens what passed between us as to Mr. Holt's letter, an...

TWO O'CLOCK P. M., February 20, 1861. MY DEAR SIR: I have this moment received a telegram from Charleston. The Governor says: Received...

I have been kept for a week, and am still, in a state of great anxiety about the dangerous political excitements at home. The President has ...

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Charleston, S.C., February 27, 1861. The PRESIDENT OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES,  &c., Montgomery, Ala : DEAR SIR...

WAR DEPARTMENT, C. S. A.,       Montgomery, March 1, 1861. GOV. F. W. PICKENS, Charleston, S. C.: Your letter to President received. This...

CONGRESS, February 22 , 1861 . Mr. Bartow, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following resolution, which was adopted, ...

Near Hampton, [va.], January 12, 1840. Dear Hunter : For some months past I had almost given over talking or reading of politics and m...

Port Royal, [va.], December 15,1839. Dear Hunter : I have not seen one single whig to whom the nomination of Harrison is acceptable. M...

Confidential. Port Royal, Jany. 4, 62. My Dear Sir The Vanderbilt played us a scurvy trick yesterday, having gone off without our m...

Washington, D. C, January 1st, 1861. Sir: We have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 30th December , in reply...

My plan for reinforcing Fort Sumpter was this— From the outer edge of the bar to Sumpter through the swash channel it is four miles in a...

[April 12, 1861] F. W. Pickens, Gov. S. C. Sir, The U. S. Gov t has directed me to deliver a quantity of provisions to Major An...

Capt. Daniel Jackson Pilot— Sir— I send you to Fort Sumpter with a load of provisions to be delivered with a letter to Major A. wh...

N. York 31 Mch. '61 D r Judge, I saw Mr. Aspinwall yesterday and in the evening met him and Capt. Marshall. From being for a l...

Washington D.C. Mch 19, ’61 D r V. I am real homesick for the kind company of the dearest wife in the world — the best and the swe...

Wash. 31 Jany 61 Dear Fox: I recd yours about the Tug of War yesterday and laid it before Genl Scott, who upon reading it said it had...

WASHINGTON, March 21, 1864. . . . . IMMEDIATELY after the organization of the cabinet, the question of what should be the policy of the...

No. 26. Joint reports of Maj. D. R. Jones, Assistant Adjutant-General, C. S. Army; and Col. Charles Allston, jr., Commander H. T. Harts...