[SOLDIERS' LETTERS, CONFEDERATE]. GRANT, H.R. Autograph letter signed to J. T. Van Diver, Richmond, 23 August 1861. 2 pages, 4to, on stationery with THE 13 STAR CONFEDERATE FLAG IN BLUE AND RED, minor browning and staining, tiny loss at right not affecting text. Concerned more with the attractions of the women of Richmond than the trials of war, this patriotic letter was penned by a bored soldier of a Mississippi regiment, near the end of the summer of 1861: "...there is the best ladies here that I ever did see in my life they treat us like we was their children soon sometime when I be going to think of my old friends in old Jackson it almost gives me the blues but then when I think of these ladies that treat us so kindly it buoys me up to think that the enemy will try to invade such ladies...." -- [ANON]. Autograph letter signed, [Conwayburg, 24 August 1863], 1 page of 2, 4to, a civilian letter reporting on the difficulty of communication, "Some of the folks here get letters very often -- letters that run the blockade; they have rec'd likenesses that way and are looking for a box of good things which the letters informed them would come the same way. I don't see why our folks don't write the same way...." -- OLDBORN, W.S. Manuscript copy of a letter to Jefferson Davis, Richmond, 11 February 1865, 2 pages, 4to, "When Senator Johnson of MO and myself waited on you a few days since in relation to the prospect of annoying and harassing the enemy by means of burning their shipping towns...We can 1st burn every vessel that leaves a foreign port for the United States. 2d we can burn every transport that leaves the harbor of New York or other northern port with supplies for the armies of the enemy in the south. 3d burn every transport and gunboat on the Mississippi River as well as devastate the country of the enemy and fill his people with terror and consternation...". (3)