I do not write often now, not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear, and why dwell upon those things? ...

Home again at Bloomsbury. From Chester to Winnsboro we did not see one living thing, man, woman, or animal, except poor William trudging h...

I want to get to Kate, I am so utterly heart-broken. I hope John Chesnut and General Chesnut may at least get into the same army. We seem s...

Mary Cantey Preston's wedding day has come and gone and Mary is Mrs. John Darby now. Maggie Howell dressed the bride's hair beauti...

Mrs. Preston was offended by the story of Buck's performance at the Ive's. General Breckinridge told her “it was the most beautiful...

John Chesnut had a basket of champagne carried to my house, oysters, partridges, and other good things, for a supper after the reception. H...

This party for Johnny was the very nicest I have ever had, and I mean it to be my last. I sent word to the Carys to bring their own men. Th...

General Hood's an awful flatterer— I mean an awkward flatterer. I told him to praise my husband to some one else, not to me. He ought t...

RICHMOND, Va. — Our pleasant home sojourn was soon broken up. Johnny had to go back to Company A, and my husband was ordered by the Preside...

For a week we have had such a tranquil, happy time here. Both my husband and Johnny are here still. James Chesnut spent his time sauntering...

Major Edward Johnston did not get into the Confederacy until after the first battle of Manassas. For some cause, before he could evade that...

My husband has come. He believes from what he heard in Richmond that we are to be recognized as a nation by the crowned heads across the wa...

A telegram from my husband of June 29th from Richmond: “Was on the field, saw it all. Things satisfying so far. Can hear nothing of John Ch...

Mr. Chesnut, having missed the Secessionville 1 fight by half a day, was determined to see the one around Richmond. He went off with Gener...

All things are against us. Memphis gone. Mississippi fleet annihilated, and we hear it all as stolidly apathetic as if it were a story of t...

General Gregg writes that Chickahominy 1 was a victory manqu é , because Joe Johnston received a disabling wound and G. W. Smith was ill. ...

The enemy are landing at Georgetown. With a little more audacity where could they not land? But we have given them such a scare, they are c...

Mine is a painful, self-imposed task: but why write when I have nothing to chronicle but disaster? 1 So I read instead: First, Consuelo, t...