Transcriber’s Notes
Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
Portions of the handwritten letters were difficult to read and the transcriptions here may contain errors; known difficulties are noted below.
Page [82]: “Viga” is uncertain in this handwritten letter. The letter is not included in the book’s List of Illustrations.
Page [82]: “always born for” may be a misprint for “borne”.
Page [165]: “The march was quite” probably should be “quiet”.
Page [280]: The spellings of “Pendor” and “Heath” in this letter have been retained, but elsewhere are correctly spelled as “Pender” and “Heth”.
Page [332]: “Since” at the beginning of the next-to-last paragraph (“Since then”) of this handwritten letter is uncertain. On the last line, it appears to be addressed to “Mrs. E. D. Longstreet” but her initials were “H. D.” The spelling of the writer of the letter was taken from the printed Table of Contents of the book.
Page [336]: The letter from Mrs. Geo. E. Pickett was mis-dated “1903” but is correctly dated here as “1904”.