CoiSresslonsl aoeVments I niiimit and Governors of the Southern Metes, woum confer favor, besiden contributing some what to the vindication of tho truth of history, by sending them to me at this phuce. The Confederate archives and records were either destroyed or car ried to Washington, as were tb c private papers ana

memoranda of" nearly all of the aWtern coav maitden.. Hence tbe necessity of tiiU sppesi to oßcersandsoldier-of the Comfederate army and