Many of the letters written from the battlefield, camp, bivouac
or during a halt on the march were lost. It has been necessary to
condense those that were received in order to form them into a small
volume. This was done by eliminating only the most uninteresting,
personal matter that the letters contained and arranging them
consecutively. With these exceptions, they are shown here exactly as
they were written. This work was done with the greatest care possible
by the surgeon’s daughter, who is President of the Daughters of the
Confederacy for the State of South Carolina and is interested in
preserving these letters for their historical value, as they give most
vivid pictures of a soldier’s life in the Southern army.