ALEXANDRIA, January 31, 1861. DEAR SIR: A meeting of the Board of Supervisors is called by instruction of Dr. S. A. Smith, vice-president,...

TYRONE, LA., Wednesday, Feb. 6, 1861. DEAR COLONEL: . . . Those cartridges 1 are the wretched (as I am sorry to learn from you they turn ...

ALEXANDRIA, Jan. 16, 1861. DEAR GENERAL: It was my purpose to wait patiently for the development of events, with my mind firmly resolved t...

January 18, 1861. MY DEAR SIR: I take it for granted that you have been expecting for some days the accompanying paper from me (the above ...

ALEXANDRIA, Saturday, Jan. 19, 1861. COL. W. T. SHERMAN, Military Academy of the Independent State of Louisiana. DEAR COLONEL: I have be...

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...

SEMINARY, January 20, 1861. MY DEAR FRIEND: Yours of yesterday was read with painful interest last night along with Mr. Sanford's two,...

BATON ROUGE, LA., Dec. 26, 1860. MY DEAR SHERMAN: The decision you have formed does not surprise me; indeed, I do not see how it could be ...

LOUISIANA STATE SEMINARY                     of Learning and Military Academy,           Alexandria, January 1, 1861. TO THE PRESIDENT OF TH...

TYRONE, Friday Night, Jan. 4, 1861. DEAR COLONEL: Your Christmas letter came duly to hand, and I beg to make you my acknowledgements for i...

ALEXANDRIA, Jan. 5, 1861. Sir: I have not acknowledged the receipt of the four kegs of cartridges. They are old, unserviceable, and much d...

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

SEMINARY, Christmas, 1860. DEAR GENERAL: They [the cartridges] are a most appropriate present, and I hope they may all be used for holiday...

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. 20, 1860. DEAR GENERAL: I did regret and do still regret that under the circumstances you thought it your duty to yo...

AT HOME, near Thibodeaux, La., October 25, 1860. MY DEAR SHERMAN: It is long since we last communed, but both of us have been travelers, a...

TYRONE, Nov. 5th, 1860. DEAR COLONEL: In a conversation with Mr. Sanford yesterday afternoon, we came to the conclusion to advise you that...

LOUISIANA STATE SEMINARY, Alexandria, July 23, 1860. DEAR GENERAL: Charles whom we sent for the mail has just returned without the mail, b...

ALEXANDRIA, Aug. 2, 1860. DEAR GENERAL: I came in this morning with the register complete and it is now in the hands of the printer, with ...