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

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

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...

ALEXANDRIA, Dec. 1, 1860. DEAR BROTHER: . . . The quiet which I thought the usual acquiesence of the people was merely the prelude to the ...

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...

LAFOURCHE, Thibodeaux, P.O., June 27, 1860. MY DEAR GENERAL: Since yours of April I have heard nothing from the Military Academy except fr...

RESOLVED: that the Academic Board respectfully ask the Board of Supervisors to define the true nature of “The Seminary of Learning and Milit...

BATON ROUGE, Feb. 21, 1860. DEAR SIR: . . . I have had but little conversation with Major Sherman relative to the Seminary, my time during...

LOUISIANA STATE SEMINARY, Alexandria, April 12, 1860. DEAR GENERAL: I have been pretty busy in obeying the orders of the Board of Supervis...

BATON ROUGE, Feb. 17, 1860. I wrote you day before yesterday. I dined yesterday with Governor Moore, to-day am to dine with the attorney-g...

NEW ORLEANS, LA., Feb. 21, 1860. DEAR GENERAL: Dr. Smith has finished his report and bill, which though a medley of old and new ideas, may...

SEMINARY OF LEARNING, Monday, Feb. 13, 1860. DEAR SIR: I enclose you Dr. Smith's letter which I have read with concern. I thought of c...

BATON ROUGE, LA., Feb. 16, 1860. DEAR GENERAL: We got here last evening; I soon found out Colonel Bragg, who is here living in the mess of...

ALEXANDRIA, Jan. 21, 1860. DEAR DOCTOR: . . . I endorse you, herewith, a draft of an act for making the Seminary a Military Academy by law, ...

NEW YORK, June 10, 1862. Governor SEWARD, Secretary of State: MY DEAR SIR: A gentleman well-informed in the financial relations of...

SEMINARY, Jan. 29, 1860. DEAR SIR: . . . I perceive no signs of insubordination on the part of the cadets. On the contrary they are wel...

Seminary, Alexandria, La ., Jan. 22, 1860. Dear Little Minnie : I have not written to you for a long time, but I have sent many message...

[January and February, 1860]. Dear Brother : I received your letter explaining how you happened to sign for that Helper book. Of course...