Mr. Manning's whole course of conduct, his verbal profession to the contrary notwithstanding, shows a deep rooted hostility, embittered ...

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

Fessenden has got out an advertisement for a new loan and an address to the people in its behalf. Am not certain that the latter is judiciou...

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

REPORT OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS JANUARY, 1860 . . . The Board of Supervisors has adopted every means in its power, by the publication and...

HEADQUARTERS-CORPS OF CADETS,             July 4 , 1864 . GENERAL: In obedience to General Orders, No. --, headquarters Virginia Mili...

Lexington, Rockbridge County , June 12 (Sunday), 1864. Dearest : — I just hear that a mail goes tomorrow. We captured this town after an...

[ Lexington. ] General Hunter burns the Virginia Military Institute. This does not suit many of us. General Crook, I know, disapproves. It ...

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

SEMINARY, Sunday Evening, January 29, 1860. DEAR GENERAL: I received this p.m. your official letter on the rumor in town that some cade...

[The State Seminary] is to be conducted upon a plan similar to that of the Virginia Institute at Lexington. . . This is a move in the right...

Alexandria , Seminary of Learning, Nov. 19, 1859. Since my last I have been out to General Graham's who has a large plantation on B...

Lancaster, Ohio , Sept. 7, 1859. Dear Sir : I am now in full possession of all documents sent to my address at Leavenworth including th...

Willard's Hotel, Washington , Sept. 7, 1859. Dear SIR: On arriving here night before last I had the pleasure to receive from Mr. R...

Lancaster, O. , Aug. 20,1859. Dear Sir : I wrote you a few days ago, in part answer to your very kind note addressed me at Lancaster. I...

Steamboat Minnesota, descending Red River, La ., August 3, 1859. Sir : I have the gratification to inform you, in advance probably of y...

Lexington, Va., January 26, 1861. My Dear Nephew: Your very welcome letter reached me a few days since. I was apprehensive from not h...

It rained hard all last night, but General Polk's tent proved itself a good one. We have prayers both morning and evening, by Dr Quinta...

I have been much occupied nursing the sick, not only in the hospital, but among our own friends; and a sad, sad week has the last been to u...

A day I will never forget. I slept undisturbed during the night, but was called down stairs early this morning by the servants, who told me...