Richmond Va.

                                                                                                                        April 4^th. 1865

 

            Dear Mamie.

                                    I wrote you a short hasty note last night. Everything has passed off pleasantly since then. The City is as quiet as could be expected & in fact more so I have seen more disturbances in Norfolk than there are in this town. To day about 3 oclock President Lincoln arrived & such a tremendous crowd as there was running to see him I never saw before. I did not get a chance to shake hands with him allthough I have no doubt that he would have been proud to have done so We had a number of distinguished persons to dinner to night among them Hon Whiting Solicitor of the Treasury To day the Daily Whig was published being the first paper published since we entered the city I have been pretty much all over the city. It is quite a pretty place or at least must have been before the war. The business portion of the city is all burned We are quartered in the most beautiful part of the city right in front of the capitol The Statuete of Washington which adorns the capitol grounds is the most beautiful thing left by the rebs./

 

I find a number of things that would be interesting as trophies if the war was not so near over, but it is impossible to carry all that a fellow takes a liking to. I sent you last night a Stonewall Jackson medal. To night I send you a few more little mementoes of the Rebellion. An autograph of Beauregard. some flowers gather by some rebel prisoner while in [?] Boston a card of Gen Ould the rebel commissioner of Exchange also a Confederate. $110. Bond. which will by about as much now as before we occupied the as it took $1200 dollars to by a barrell of Flour, which made it out an almost worthless currency as it now realy is I expect there will be much suffering here before the business starts up again. The Regt lies just outside of the place I think if we stay here that I shall move outside in a few days but we do not know what is to be done yet Much will depend on where Jeff & Lee stop I will close now Good bye much love direct from Richmond

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