Fort Hill 15th June 1847 MY DEAR SIR, Your views in reference to our political condition and affairs is so good, that I have little to add...

Fort Hill 8th July 1847 MY DEAR SIR, There is not much to be added about politicks to what I wrote you last. The difference between North ...

Fort Hill 24th July 1847 MY DEAR SIR, We have had little of publick interest of late. The Mexican war has been at a stand. There is ever[y...

Fort Hill 13th Augt. 1847 MY DEAR ANNA.   I am not at all surprised, that the victories our arms have achieved in Mexico should make so de...

Fort Hill 6th Sept 1847 MY DEAR SIR, I agree with you, that the political condition of all western Europe is very unsettled, and especiall...

Reports of the Battles of Monterey and Buena Vista. (From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.) Brierfield 3d Oct. 1847 G...

(From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.) Monterey. 26th Sept. 1846. Gen Quitman,           Comdg 2d Brig. 1st Div. Vols, S...

(From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.) Additional Report. Gen Quitman,           Comdg. 2 Brig. 1st Div. Vols. Sir, o...

Fort Hill 24th Oct 1847 You will have seen by the papers, that the City of Mexico is in possession of our army, and that the prospect of c...

Fort Hill, 29th Oct 1847. DEAR SIR, I have read your letter with attention, and will answer it in the same sperit of candour and freedom, ...

(From Vicksburg Sentinel, September 29, 1847.) Brierfield, Warren co., Miss.,           August 19th, 1847. Gentlemen:—I have the honor to ac...

(From Natchez Courier, October 6, 1847.) Brierfield, Miss., Sept. 24, 1847. C. G. Forshey, Esq., of Com. of Invitation: Dear Sir—When I rece...

RESOLUTIONS. Resolved , That to conquer Mexico, and to hold it, either as a province or to incorporate it in the Union, would be inconsist...