Caroline Cowles Richards A number of the teachers and pupils of the Academy have enlisted for the war. Among them E. C. Clarke, H. C. Kirk, ...

Camp White , March 26, 1864. Dear Mother : — We are now having a cold rain-storm, but are all well. There is considerable sickness amon...

Somerville , Dec. 7th, 1863. My Dear Sir , — It gives me great pleasure to present, at your request, a statement of the impression made...

Norfolk, Va. , Nov. 11th, 1863. Four hundred refugees, released by colored soldiers, have just come, empty-handed, into our lines. In t...

Whitehead Farm , June 20th, 1863. I asked, and it was given unto me. The books and slates came and were welcomed, and many of them are ...

St. Helena's , May 11, 1862. I wish I had half as much time to think of folks at home as you take to think of me, but you will know...

Portsmouth, Va. , May 11th, 1863. For a week we heard, without anxiety, the booming of the guns at Suffolk, and we begged to be allowed...

St. Helena's , May 8, 1862. It is so very late and I have been writing business letters till my eyes are dim, but I must say just a...

Newbern, N. C , Dec. 22d, 1863. On the morning of Nov. 23d, I was duly installed as Teacher in a log school-house, in Camp Kimball, jus...

Newbern , November 23d, 1863. Mr. James gave me a School which Miss Canedy was teaching, consisting of adults and a few children who co...

My thirty-seventh birthday yesterday. Never thought I would spend it in South Carolina, on a plantation too, and there by right as occupan...

October 2d, 1863. Owing to a variety of circumstances contingent upon the commencement of a new work, it has been almost impossible to ...

St. Helena's , Sunday, April 27,1862. I have been hoping from day to day for a chance to give you a good long letter, but I never w...

Office Of Superintendent Of Blacks, Newbern, N. C. , June 6th, 1863. Respecting Teachers, I am ready to assure you, from General Fost...

Dear Sir ,—The Committee of the Adams School, on this Island, would say, that in regard to our ignorance, we were all ignorant and blind, a...

Boston , May 23,1862. My Dear, Sir , — . . . I would gladly do anything, except come before the public, to help your good work. You may...