I have taken every precaution to have supplies ready for you wherever you may turn up.

I did this before when you left Atlanta, and regret that they did not reach you promptly when you reached salt-water....
Alexander Stephens, R.M.T.Hunter, and Judge Campbell, are now at my headquarters, very desirous of going to Washington to see Mr.
Lincoln, informally, on the subject of peace.

The peace feeling within the rebel lines is gaining ground rapidly.

This, however, should not relax our energies in the least, but should stimulate us to greater activity.
I have received your very kind letters, in which you say you would decline, or are opposed to, promotion.

No one world be more pleased at your advancement than I, and if you should be placed in my position, and I put subordinate, it would not change our personal relations in the least.