North Carolinian Catherine Edmondston wrote on 11th February 1862:

Captain Henry A. Chambers, of the 49th North Carolina Infantry, wrote on 10th February 1864:

Down in Louisiana, a young lady named Sarah Morgan was delighted to receive a letter from her brother James, serving in the C.S. Navy. Her diary entry for 9th February 1863 reads, in part, as follows:

Staying in 1865 for just a little longer, we move on to the diary of Judith W. McGuire, a Virginian lady.

Extracts from Mary Chesnut's diary entry for February 7th, 1865:

"Sunday afternoon I was partly wild. I could only see 'Sam' [Gnl. J.B. Hood] maimed & helpless - with his face of the tortured in Hades...I was morbid and miserable...Lincoln has returned our peace commissioners - with taunting words & we had to read to day a sneering leader of the London Times - amusing themselves at our stupidity in thinking they would help us if we abolished slavery - & adding if we offered ourselves as subjects to any foreign power, they would 'decline with thanks'"

I'm going to try to reproduce a diary entry written by a Confederate citizen for every day of the year, as the year unfolds.

John Walters, of the Norfolk Light Artillery, wrote the following on February 6th, 1865:

This morning Mr. J and I went to the Senate where we saw Stevens and Hunter, regarding whom there is considerable curiosity, since they have but just returned from that Peace Conference which has of late been upsetting the minds of the good people of this Confederacy.

GORDON, George Tomlin Born in London on 8th August 1823. Son of the Rev. John Gordon, the vicar of Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire, and Sarah Matthews. Educated at Westminster School & Jesus College, Cambridge. Married Harriet Harrison in 1847 at All Saints Church, Weston, Yorkshire. In 1851 he was a landed proprietor living at Cuckney Hall, Cuckney, Nottinghamshire. in 1860 he was appointed Treasurer of the colony of Vancouver Island.