Item Nos. 764-783, 1867

Topics include:

Politics: Items 764, 766, 769-770, 772, 775-783 (regarding the tariff bill in Congress; state politics; lists of Union men and rebels from post offices; President Johnson and the Senate [item 775]; appointments wanted; slavery; oath of allegiance and constitution; invitation to dine in Richmond with the Pierponts)



Government/War: Items 765, 767-768, 779 (artificial limbs for soldiers and iron crosses for cemetery plots; soldiers accidently sent from West Virginia to Louisiana; letter from Richard Garrett requesting compensation for his barn burned by US soldiers to get John Wilkes Booth out of it, and the story of Booth and Herold at the barn [item 779])



Family and Friends: Item 783 (church activities)



Law/Business: Items 771, 773-774, 782 (government compensation for war damage, state public education, sale of armory at Harpers Ferry)