om the elaborate and invaluable Roster of General Officers, etc., in Confederate Service, prepared from official sources by Colonel Charles C. Jones, Jr., of Augusta, Georgia.
Roster of General Officers, Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives, Military organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the war betw to increase my interest and still further to engage all my energies in this great work, which, under innumerable difficulties, I have steadily prosecuted in Augusta, Georgia, Nashville, Tennessee, and New Orleans, Louisiana, up to this happy moment when I greet the stern but noble faces of the survivors of the Confederate Army anfellow-citizens has commanded my deepest sympathy, yet I have, from a stern sense of official duty, persistently refused to approve any of these claims.
Augusta, Georgia, May 15, 1890.
my dear brother—I am this morning in receipt of your letter of the 3d instant, and I regret it is not in my power to furnish accurate answe
the loneliness and suffering of advancing years and increasing infirmities, they can look alone to the States which they served so faithfully in battle, in victory and in defeat.
The noble soldiers who composed the illustrious armies of Northern Virginia and Tennessee made a gallant fight against overwhelming odds for what they believed to be sacred rights and constitutional liberty.
The contest was decided by the sword against them.
These matchless soldiers accepted the issue in good fmake direct appropriations of money to help said home, but has given the rent from a large public building to this purpose, running from fifteen hundred to two thousand annually in value.
Respectfully, W. H. King, Adjutant-General.
State of Virginia.
Adjutant-General's office, Richmond, Va., August 22, 1891. Prof. Joseph Jones, Surgeon-General United Confederate Veterans, 156 Washington avenue, New Orleans, La.:
Sir—You letter of the 17th inst. to Governor McKinney, requestin
