Letters of Rev. John W. Alvord

pilot is coming on board. We pay him $ 100 to take us to that city.

Your letters are there of course. After a few days we go up the river to Vicksburg & then I shall part with the General & go by Montgomery to Augusta & down to Savannah and Charleston a-gain—So please direct all your letters to me there Care Gen.l R. Saxton as before. The transfer of the Beaufort Savings Bank, which I could not perfect in the little time we had coming on—takes me that way. After that I shall come home, perhaps over land possibly—not if I can help it, in a ship from Charleston. In the latter case I shall see you first as then there will be no stop in Washington before coming. But will write you from N.O. or Vicksburg—

Love to all as the Sailors are shouting us off—

Affectionately, as ever J. W. Alvord

Write me at once & of every thing to Charleston S.C.—