Ellen W. Randolph Coolidge to Bennett Taylor, 27 Jan. 1865
I wrote to you on the 10th my dear Bennett, since which time we have heard nothing more of your exchange. Such matters are always slow & difficult. ...
Ellen W. Randolph Coolidge to Bennett Taylor, 10 Jan. 1865
your letter of 1st Jan. to Mr Coolidge is received. We have heard nothing farther of the exchange, but in such matters, delays are so unavoidable, that we still hope for success. Nothing will be wanting on our part to ensure it. I have heard nothing lately from our friends, except that a letter...
Extract from the Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, 1864
1864 During this year the war continued in all its force, but we were gradually breaking down the Confederate strength and preparing for their surrender in April, 1865. The financial condition of the country became appalling, gold reaching at one time two hundred and seventy-six, and the English...
Moncure Robinson to Bennett Taylor, 22 Dec. 1864
It seems to me some time since we heard from You, & this reminds me that it is longer since I have written You. I have been more dilatory than otherwise in doing so, from my inability to say anything on the subject of the special exchange. I am not without hope, in regard to it, though I fear...
Receipt for Purchase of Corn from Thomas Jefferson Randolph (1829–1872) by the Confederate States of America, 19 Dec. 1864
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, QUARTERMASTER’S DEPARTMENT.RECEIVED.this day, ofMajor Th. J Randolph Jr QMrthe followingStoresviz (7910) Seventy nine hundred and ten pounds of Corn (181) One hundred and Eighty one grain Sacks Dec. 19 1864
Joseph Coolidge to Bennett Taylor, with postscript by Ellen W. Randolph Coolidge, 17 Dec. [1864]
An application properly signed by Officers and Senators has been presented to the secretary of war, for your exchange; or liberation on parole. This has been endorsed by the Secretary of the navy, and by the Commissary General of Prisoners, as also, I believe, by major General Halleck. It was...
Francis Eppes to Maria J. Eppes (Shine), 20 July 1864
Well my ever dearest Maria, you are at last (if we may credit Fanns letter) safely mor moored in the haven of yr. hopes! and enjoying the pleasant company of yr. hospitable friends; and in anticipation the renovating influences of the salubrious & invigorating clime to whc you have flown. You...
Cornelia J. Randolph to Elizabeth Rivinus, 7 June 1864
(Copy) The three accompanying letters of my Grandfather, sent, in compliance with your request for autographs for exhibition at the Fair, are the only ones in my possession here; all my other memorials of him are in Virginia, “beyond the Union lines”—soon, I trust, to be within them without...
Nicholas W. Eppes to Eliza Eppes, 23 Mar. 1864
I am going to make one more effort to revive our correspondence, which I hope will be more sucessful than those through the past winter. It seems as though some unwonted fate had attended every effort to acquaint my dearly loved relatives of Mill Brook, with my whereabouts, since I have been...
Francis Eppes to Eliza Eppes, 21 Mar. 1864
I was rejoiced to hear from Mary a few days ago that you are much improved in health, and I trust that this will find you at Saratoga, enjoying that quiet and freedom from household duties, so essential to one in yr. enfeebled condition. It is the one thing needful for you my dear Sister; the one...
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