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...

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...

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

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...

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...

(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...

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...

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...

In my hurried retreat from the ‘old homestead,’ I omitted to procure the description boundaries &c of the Lot whc I sold to My sister Eliza, and as you are her agent in business matters, I write to inform you of the cause of delay in forwarding as promised, the relinquishment of Dower. Send...

MAJOR SIDNEY COOLIDGE. The painful uncertainty of the earlier accounts from Chattanooga and from Richmond, relative to the fate of Major Coolidge of the 16th U. S. Infantry, reported as killed, then as a prisoner, and again, officially, as “missing in action” on the fatal field of Chickamauga,...