Feinberg/Whitman Box 19 Folder 14 General Correspondence Wilson, Benton H. Nov. 1865 - May 1870 & undatedSYRACUSE N.Y. Nov [?] Mr. Walter Whitman Washington D.C. B.H. Wilson ans. Nov. 20, 186[?][?] May 15th [?] Dear Friend Walt Whitman Your letter [??] welcome of April 15th [??] time ago but [??] very busy and [???] to answer it before. It gives me great pleasure to receive a letter from you [??] hear [??] well. My mother died May 2nd [?] and was buried on the 4th. [??] few days before she died to see her for the last time alive [??] for the [??] welcomed death [??] a friend to take [?]to a better co[untry?] he Died as he has always lived a good man & a Christian. The Syracuse Journal says A Good Man Gone. For years Henry Wilson has [?] honesty and Efficiency [a?] [??] with itinerancy [?ing] and repairing Clocks always earning an [?] thought the [?] [?] he could give to God [?es] to [?] his fellow men. The poor, especially will [?y's his kindly words and services. "The memory of the just is blessed." My Mother is not very well this summer I [?] Little Walt and the rest of my family are all well. he is quite a boy now and can run at dogs and get into all kinds of Mischief. It is a beautiful quiet day here today and I would like it very much if [?] could be together to day and take a pleasant stroll [?] into the green Fields and Woods. Write as soon as convenient With Love to you Yours B H WilsonGreene Dec 19th 1869 Walt Whitman Dear Friend You will see by my letter that I have changed my base I am now located in Greene Chenango County selling the Howe Sewing Machine, and Pianos and Melodeons. I have been here three Months and have done much better than I had any reason to expect I would do when I came here. My family are all here and are well, little Walt is just getting interesting he runs all around andis beginning to talk quite plainly. I do not know but you will think by my long silence that I have forgotten you, but I still remember and Love you as ever. There was about two feet of snow fall here yesterday and last night which is going to make our Sleighing first rate. I have not heard from Hamilton since I came here and do not know how he is getting along. My Father & Mother were well the last time I heard from them. I hope you will write soon Yours with Love B.H. WilsonGREENE N.Y. Dec 2[?] Walt Whitman Esq Atty Genl Office Washington DC Benton Wilson ans. April 15, 1870CARRIER Dec 22 [?][*see notes Sept 2 1888*] April 15-1870 Dear Benton Wilson. Dear loving [young man,] comrade, As I [was] have just been again reading [again] your last letter to me of December 19, last, I think I wrote to you on receiving it, but cannot now remember for certain. Sometimes, after an interval, the the thought of [some] one I much love, comes upon me [so] strong & full all of a sudden - [I feel] & now as I sit here by [the] a big open window, this beautiful afternoon, every thing quiet & sunny - [you] I have been & am now, thinking so of you, dear[est] young man, & of your love, or more rightly speaking, our love for each other - so curious, so sweet, I say so religious - How good it was that we met -[I remember the times we used to sit] there in [the] the Ward in Armory Square Hospital We met there in the Hospital-- [we have been] now [so] little we have been together--[but] seems to me we ought to be some together every day of our lives--I don't care about talking, or amusement-, but just to be together, & work together or go off in the open air together --Now it is [it seems] a long while since we have been together--& it seems a long while since I have [heard] had a letter.Don't blame me for not writing oftener. I know you would feel satisfied if you could only [know] realize how & how much I am thinking of you, & with what [peculiar] great love, this afternoon. [Dear Benton,] I [comes] can hardly express it in a letter- [O if we could only be together now even if only] but I [just] thought it would [be a comfort] just write [a] [Dear My dear, dear friend,] [one] - [my Dear soldier - dear comrade] a letter this time off hand to you, dearest soldier, only for [my] love to you - I [knew] thought [I] it [would] might please you. Nothing very new or different in my affairs. I am still working here in Atty' Gens office - [I] same posist - have good health - [nothing] expect to bring out [my] new [b] editions of my books before [may] very long - how is the little boy - I send my love to him, & to your wife & parents.see notes Sept 2 1888[Official Business.] SYRACUSE N.Y. Jan 24 Walt Whitman Esq. Atty. Gens. Office Washington D.C. BH WilsonCARRIER Jan 26 7 AMSyracuse July 18th, 1867. Dear Friend Walt Whitman It has been a long time since we have heard from each other and I am feeling quite anxious to hear from my kind & Loving Friend again and hear how he is getting along in this world. but I think I can imagine about how you are getting along, in just about the same way that you used to at Armory Square Hospital when your kind face & pleasant words cheered the soldier Boys & won their hearts I never shall forget the first -- time you came in after David & I got there We Loved you from the first time we spoke to you. But to the present. We heard from David last week he is doing first rate on a Rail Road in California & Says he will come back in a few years a rich Man I hope he will for he is a good Boy & kind to his Old Mother he sent her $250.00 Last week which will do her a great deal of good. Father & Mother send Love to you My little Walt is quite a big Boy most 16 months old and full of mischief, he can walk all around the house & yard & talks very little I wish you could see him Write Soon Yours with Love B. H. Wilson Syracuse Jan 24th 1869 Walt Whitman Dear Friend I read your letter dated at Brooklyn two weeks ago to day & I assure you it gave me great pleasure to hear from you and to hear that yourself & Mother were well how I pity your poor Crippled Brother. I would have liked to have visited you in New York if I had known it soon enough But I think I shall see you some other time and then we will have a jolly visit together. I do not know what to say about our Baby Walt, but he is like most other Babys of his age (10 months) he is full of fun & is rather quick tempered or as I call it he is ugly. If you would like to have it I will send you his Photograph some time this winter, & then you can judge for yourself.we have not had much very cold weather here this winter, and to day it is very Pleasant. Father & Mother & My Wife send Love to my kind Friend, & you know you have a good share of mine. I am still at work at the same Business Pianos & Melodeons & do not know but I always shall be. Write soon as you can, yours with Love B. H. Wilson. WASHINGTON D.C. [?] [?] Walt Whitman, Washington D.C. Benton Wilson Oct. 6 '1868 (Rec'd Dec. 10)CARRIER DEC 10 3 DEL.[Official Business.] SYRACUSE N.Y. DEC 27 Walt Whitman Atty Gens Office Washington D.C. BH WilsonCARRIER DEC 29 1 DEL.Syracuse Dec 27th/68 Walt Whitman Dear Friend I suppose you will think by this time that I have forgotten my Dear old Friend by my long silence & neglect to answer your letter, or acknowledge the receipt of your paper that you was so kind as to send me, but I assure you that I have not forgot you but still remember you with the same Love that commenced in Armory Square Hospital & will not cease as long as life lasts. There is not a day that passes but what I think of you & promise myself that I will not delay writing to you any longer but so often break my promise We have had excellent sleighing here for the past two or three weeksand it still continues to be good & all that can afford it seem to enjoy it very much. I am at work in the Melodeon & Piano Factory of A.C. Chase again and shall probably continue there this winter My health is very good. Father has been quite sick for a week but is improving now. Father & Mother send their Love to you. Our Baby Walt is a fine boy now & as bright as a dollar. I hope to have the pleasure of showing him to you someday. If you come to New york next Summer & cannot come up and make me a short visit let me know when you are coming and if my business will permit I will meet you at new york and have a short visit with you there. I hope that the exit of A Johnson & the inauguration of Gen Grant will restore the country to a Peace footing in a very short time. I gave our Friends the Misses Riley a letter of introduction to you when they were here last fall, have you seen them yet. Hamilton is well as usual & is still running on the Rail Road he sends his Love to you Hoping you had a merry Christmas & wishing you a happy New Year I will close for the present Please write soon. yours with Love B.H. Wilson.Syracuse Oct 6th/68 Dear Friend Walt Whitman I have neglected to answer your last letter so long that I am most ashamed to write to you now but I know that you will excuse my seeming neglect for I have been very busy for the past three months. This letter will be handed to you by our esteemed Friend Migs Kate C Riley of Washington who I would like to introduce to you. We made her acquaintance at the same time we did yours and under the same circumstances performing debts of kindness to Sick & wounded Soldiers. She has made us several flying visits -- this summer & I have taken the liberty of sending you this letter of Introduction by her. She can talk to you about David & my Self from having seen us lately My little baby Walt is well & Bright as a dollar. with Love to yourself I will close for the present Please write soon your Friend B H WilsonSyracuse May 3rd 1868. Dear Walt I received a letter from you some time since but have been obliged to delay answering it on a/c of an accident which happened to me about that time. I got the thumb of my right hand into some Cog wheel and smashed it pretty fine so that I have not been able to do anything since nor am likely to be able for a month yet. At what time do you expect to visit New York this Summer if at all. My thumb is very Painful so that I cannot write much at present but will do so as soon as it gets well. My family are all well. Write soon. Yours with Love B.H. WilsonSYRACUSE N.Y. FEB 25 Walt Whitman Esq. Atty Gens Office Washington D.C. B.H. Wilson--Feb. 24 '68 ans. March 4CARRIER FEB 27 2 DEL.Syracuse Feb 24th / 1868 Dear Friend Walt. at last I have got started to reply to your letter recd some weeks ago. I do not know but you think by this time that I have forgotten you, but far from it I think of you every day and always with Love. I have promised myself every week since I received your letter that I would write to you and as often I have failed to keep my promise. Mother recd a letter from Father to day stating that he had seen you several times since he came to Washington. I do not remember whether I ever told you or not that Father was insane at times. we have had him in the asylum at Utica nearly two years, but it is now two years since he left that place. & he has been a source of anxiety to us since as well as before he went there we are afraid he is out of his head now a little. When he left here he said he was going to New York as agent for a firm in this city & the next we hear of him he is in Washington trying to get some Patent which we would be very glad if he would come home & let it alone. I have commenced work again after being idle nearly three months. and I am very glad to have something to do once more. The weather has been very cold for the last three days & we have had good sleighing nearly all winter. Mother & My Wife send their regards to you. I will try and write more promptly next time, so good bye for the Present. from your Friend B.H. WilsonSYRACUSE N.Y. SEP 16 Walt Whitman Esq. Atty Gens Office Washington D.C. B.H. Wilson--Feb. 24 '68 ans. March 4 Benton Wilson Sept 16 '67 ans. Sept 23 '67 Atty Genls. also Oct 29 '67CARRIER SEP 17 7 P.M.Syracuse Sept 15 Sunday 188[?] Dear Friend Walt Whitman I know that you will not think I have forgotten you by my long Silence for I have been waiting patiently for more than four months for an answer to my last letter to you which was written some time in April, but I presume you have not received it. How well I remember the kind face that we used to look for at.Armory Square Hospital. I spent a week in New York City in June. my wife was taken sick there while visiting her Sister and they sent for me to come. I am at work at the same business that I was when I wrote to you last, Piano Forte and Melodeon work. We have been drove quite hard with work this Summer and I have got pretty tired but there is no rest for us yet. What do you think [?] the policy of President Johnson. I am inclined to think he is as big a traitor as Jeff Davis. and I am in hopes that when Congress meets that they will go on with the impeachment. The weather is getting quite cool here now so that it is comfortable to keep a fire I do not know any thing to write about that will interest you. so I will close hoping that I will hear from you soon [?] yours with Love B.H. Wilson SYRACUSE N.Y. APR 22 Walt. Whitman. Esq Atty Gens Office Washington D.C. Benton H. Wilson April 22. 1867Syracuse April 21st 1867 Dear Friend Walt. Whitman. I was very much pleased a few days ago to receive your prompt answer of April 12th to my letter & I will try and be as prompt in return. Father has gone to church this morning as usual with him Sundays and I am left alone to write without interruption. I recd a letter from my wife about the middle of last week she had arrived safely and was enjoying herself very well. I do not want you to misunderstand my motives in writing to you of my Situation & feelings as I did in my last letter or else I shall have to be more guarded in my letters to you. I wrote so because you wanted me to write how I was situated. and give you my [opinion] mind without reserve and all that I want is your advice and Love. and I do not consider it cold lecture or dry advice. I wish you to write to me just as you feel & express yourself and advise as freely as you wish and will be satisfied. I am inclined to take things about as they come and consider all things for the best although we may not see it sometimes. I have long since learned that contentment is the only real happiness. I would like it very much if we could be together if only for a few days so that we might understand each other better. and perhaps we can some of thes days when we are a little differently situated. I must close this for the present as I have several other letters to write to day. With Love I remain your Boy Friend B.H. Wilson.SYRACUSE APR 8 Walt Whitman, Esq. A"tty. Gens. Office Washington D.C. [*Benton H. Wilson April 8 --- Answd April 13 - 67*] Syracuse April 7th/67 Dear Friend & Comrade I can not make any other excuse for my delay in answering your welcome letter of March 15th than negligence, for I have had time for it but I have kept putting it off from day to day because I have not had much news that I thought would interest you and I do not know as it will now for I have not much to write of except my family affairs. My Wife started for New York City last friday night to be gone severalweeks. she is to be with her Sister during her confinement who is now having her fourth child and has not been married quite four years yet. she must be such a woman as you would sing a song to I spoke of going to South America but I have given that idea up for I do not believe a man can do as well any where else as he can in the United States the greatest country in the world. but I will tell you why I thought of going there. I am poor and am proud of it but I hope to rise by honesty and industry. I am a married man but I am not happy for my disposition is not right. I have got a good Woman and I love her dearly but I seem to lack patience or something. I think I had ought to live alone. but I had not ought to feel so. I would like very much to see you for I have so much to tell you and to talk about. but I fear I shall weary you with such a letter as this so I will close it with my Love to you. I don't know but I shall scold you if you delay answering this as long as you did my last for anything from you will interest me. Father sends good wishes to you B. H. Wilson 10 1 Del. CAR 10something there that would be of benefit to me financially. I have not decided what part of the country I would go to yet and I want to get your advice on the subject for I am not very well posted. Give me your opinion freely, and say whatever you wish to say on my subject. If I should go I would try to spend a day or two with you in Washington. I will try and give you a better letter next time I write. for I am not in very good writing mood to night. enclosed is some cards Fac Simile of those I sent you in the letter you did not get. I did not know but you would like to have them. from your loving Soldier Boy B.H. Wilson. Syracuse Feb 3rd 1867 Walt Whitman. Dear Friend Sunday evening has come around again and I find myself again employed in the pleasant duty of answering one of your welcome letters. I rec'd yours of Jan 31st last night, and will not lose any time in answering it this time, but I do not know as you will approve of my writing on Sundays, but that is about the only time I have for writing except evenings and then my hands tremble so from my work (which is nearly all done by the hands) that I can scarcely write inteligibly so I feel certain you will excuse SYRACUSE FEB 4 Walt Whitman Atty Gens Office Washington DC. [*B. H. Wilson. Feb. 3. '67. (ans. March 15, '67)*]CARRIER FEB 6 2 Del. I also received your "Leaves" of "Grass" and the pamphlet the "Good" "Gray" Poet, which I shall prize so highly that no money could purchase it but I do not know as you [had] ought to have sent it to me, for I do not know as you could afford it, but I will try and repay you for it if in no other way than Love which I can give [with] [I can give] from the heart. The vindication I have read part of it and Father has read the rest of it to us. and I shall take the liberty of disagreeing with you in regard to his thinking more of you than you deserve for you deserve his love as well as that of thousands of others myself included. and I wish you to give him my best regards and tell him I am one of the thousands that was visited in Armory Square Hospital by his Good Gray Poet, Walt Whitman, and that I hope some day to make his acquaintance in person. I think Mr O'Connor was perfectly sane in writing his vindication. and I thank you very much for sending it to me for it has done me good already. When I get to thoroughly reading your Book I shall probably have some questions to ask but I shall not get as bigoted as Secretary Harlan and wish to turn you out of employment for your plainness of speech for I have failed as yet to find any indecent passages. I have been talking and thinking very strongly of going to South America next spring to be gone a year or two and see if I could not get intoSYRACUSE JAN 28 NY Walt Whitman Esq. "Atty" Gens "Office" Washington D.C. [*B.H. Wilson, Jan 27, ans. '67 Jan 31.*] [*Atty Genls*] I went into Business with a partner at manufacturing Parlor Brackets a little over a year ago and continued at it about six or Seven months and lost about one thousand dollars and found myself in debt six hundred dollars and finally came to the conclusion that it was time I closed up my business, so I did so about the first of July last, and am now at work at my trade in a Piano Forte & Melodeon Manufactory and find that it pays me better than business on my own hook. Now I think I have given you a good statement of my situation and hope it will be to your satisfaction Syracuse Jan 27th 1867 Dear Friend your letter of the 10th of January was received more than a week ago and should have been answered before this time but I have not been in the humor of writing and have kept putting it off till some more convenient season but I will try to be more punctual in the future. Father is staying with me again and he borrowed "Leaves of Grass" for me of Dr Hawley for a few days and was very much interested in it. but Iwill be candid with you. I think on the start I was more interested in it because it was your work; than for the good sentiments it contained. but as I get more acquainted with it I liked it for its own value. although I can not understand all of it I can not find any thing indecent about it. But my kind Old Friend you must not think that because I wrote to you and mentioned it, that I wish you to send me the Book for that is not what I intended for you to think. Drum Taps I have not seen yet nor is it to be found at any of the stores in Syracuse Dr Hawley has been trying to get a copy of it for about a month but all that was here were taken as soon as they arrived. We have splendid sleighing here now. and have had for about two or three weeks or more. You say you wish me to write how I am situated what I am doing &c. I wrote to you a year and more ago that I was married but did not receive any reply so I did not know but you was displeased with it. I was married to a New York Lady. Daughter of the late P.L. Gage of the firm of Gage, Sloans & Dater No 83 Chamber St and 65 Reed St but like may others they went down in the crisis of 1857 DEC 29 1867 7 P.M.If you come to New York next summer on a visit I shall expect you to take a short trip up here to see me (if I am here) and I will pay your fare and take as good care of you as we possibly can. Now if you come to New York, and must not fail to let me know it. Hamilton has returned from the west. his Brother is gaining slowly. he sends his Love to you and says he will write to you. Father is living with me now, he says he wrote to you a few days ago. My Wife wants me to send her love to you for she says she loves any body that I love I devote some of my leisure to reading and writing but I have not had any History except what we have got in the house. because I have not had access to the Libraries. but if you will write what history I shall get. I will get a library ticket and try to get them. History is my favorite reading I do not know as this letter will be very interesting to you so I will close for this time hoping to hear from you again soon. I remain as ever your Boy Friend with Love Benton H. Wilson SYRACUSE [?] N.Y. Walt. Whitman. Esq. Washington, D.C. Attorney Gens Office [*B.H. Wilson Dec. 17 1866 ans. Dec ans. Jan. 10 '67*] Syracuse Dec 16th 1866 Dear Friend Whitman I received your kind and welcome letter of the 13th inst and I assure you I was very glad to hear from you again and to hear [fro] that you are in good health. and hope you will escape from any more attacks of Neuralgia I wish if agreeable to yourself to keep up a regular correspondence between us. and perpetuate the friendship commenced in Armory Square Hospital. I think it will be of benefit to me morally and perhaps will not be of any detriment to youA few days ago I picked up a paper through my Friend Hamilton containing an article regarding Walt Whitman the Poet which was the first intimation I had of your being an author. I will send you the paper if you wish. I would like very much to read your works for I have heard my Father speak a few days ago of your Leaves of Grass and says it is well suited to the American People. Father has been here visiting me for a few days but has gone away now. he borrowed Leaves of Grass, of a friend of his here several years ago I believe, I have never seen any of your works. The weather has been very Cold for the past week and this morning it commenced to snow and has not stopped yet at 4 P.M. and I think we are going to have some sleighing for Christmas I hope our political troubles will soon cease and the country get settled but I can not endorse the policy of President Johnson for I do not believe it is right to place the rebels in office or to allow them to vote untill they are thoroughly repentant. I must draw my letter to a close for this time. and hope I shall hear from you soon again. I hope you will have a merry Christmas and a happy New Year With love I remain your sincere Friend B.H. Wilson CARRIER DEC 18 7 P.M.SYRACUSE N.Y. DEC 11 Walt. Whitman, Esq. Attorney Generals Office Washington D.C. [*Benton H. Wilson Dec 11 - '66 -- Ans Dec 13*]CARRIER DEC 13 2 Del. Syracuse Dec 9th/66 Walt Whitman Dear old Friend I wrote to you a long time ago and recieved one letter from you but when I wrote again I recieved no answer and supposed you had not recieved my letter and I thought I would write you a few lines again and see if you had not forgotten me I would try to make myself one of your correspondents for I would really like to hear from you very much for I formed an attachment for youduring my short stay in washington (and at the hospital) that I would like to perpetuate it. I do not know your present address but shall address this the same as I did the last one I wrote to you. My Friend Hamilton started for Leavenworth Kansas last week to see his Brother, who has been jammed up on the Rail Road, and had his Leg amputated. I will not weary you with a very long letter this time but will wait till I get an answer to this and then I will try to do better. I am as ever your Sincere friend Benton H. Wilson, Syracuse, N. Y.Syracuse New York Nov 11th 1865 Mr Whitman Dear Friend I suppose you will think that I have forgotten you long before this time but I have not your kindness to me while in the hospital will never be forgotten by me. I have entirely recovered from my wounds long since and have been at work part of the time and attending commercial school. I have been at work about six weeks consequently my hand is not in very good condition for writing.I have been promising myself to write to you ever since I returned home but have failed to keep my promise till now. I intend to go south in about two months and if I come that way I will stop and see you. I would like to know what chance I would have to go into business with a few hundred [dud] dollars capital If I can not go into anything there, what do you think of my going further south, say to Savannah. I want you when you write to tell me just what you think about it, I do not know as you will be much interested by receiving this letter from me but I would like to hear from you very much yours with respect B.H. Wilson Drawer 155 Syracuse, N.Y. [*500 4/7 24 100 10 4 16 11 *] Dear boy, Your letter has [arr] come to hand. According to [your] request I [will] send you immediately few hurr lines [immediately] in response. My dear loving boy [& as I read your letter] [your letter makes me] [T] I wish [indeed] [indeed] [you could] [be w] things were situated [ep] so you could be with me, [it was so, so] & we could be together for a while where we could enjoy each others society & [dear] sweet friendship & you could talk freely. I [am] am sure it would do you good, & it would be a [ha] great pleasure to me. But we must take things as [we] they are. [And] I have thought over [your last] some passages in the letter, but will not at present [undertake to] say much to you on the subject, in writing. [Only] One or two things I will say [here] briefly at present - One is, that it is every way the best & most natural condition for a young man to [have a] be married, having a companion, a good & affectionate wife - & another is that [it is ha] [contentment cheerful] contentment with one's situation in life [in] does not depend half so much on what [that] that situation is, as [it does] on the [habitual] mood & spirit in which [he] one [journeys through life.] accepts the situation or makes the best of it.condition that such permits should not be in violation of existing military orders restricting shipments by the Commandant of the particular departments. # (space) ¶ (d) The general doctrine of the law of licenses is that "to exempt a blockaded port from the restrictions incident to a State of [war] blockade, it must be specially designated with such an exception in the license: otherwise a blockaded port shall be taken as an exception to the general description in the license." (The Byfield, Edw, 190.) # (space) ¶ (e) But neither the Regulations of August 28. 1862 nor any other Lines of Regulations contain any warrant for the licensing of persons. A general license or permit is not tolerated by the Regulations, Every one of which contemplates the specific goods designated in an original invoice as the Sole Subject matter of a license or permit (Regulation IV, V, IX, XV) [Regulation IV][Benton] [But I think it will] [may] [please] [And though] [And then (though I] [it is hardly needed] But These are bits of cold [sort of] wisdom. I must put something to [please you] cheer my boy better than that in my letters So I [must add] will tell you again [dear boy] Benton that I love you [dearly] [well] dearly, & [am] always [bear] keep you in mind, though we are separated [by many many] hundreds of miles. [You think of] Remember this, [at times when] dearest comrade when[ever] things are cloudy with you, [& think of it, & it may be] For it is true - & such thoughts are often a balm & comfort to the mind. [- for it is true] Write to me [dear boy], often as you can. Don't mind because we are separated now, as things are. [Likely] [If] [One day it may be our] We will meet one day. I have no doubt. Try to keep up the same brave heart in the affairs [of peacefu] of peace, that I know you did when you were a soldier. A young man's life is [always] a battle[.] any how. Noble - thrice noble is he who [bears up] steadily [holds] carries [a brave and] [still] throughout the march, through defeat or whatever happens, [with] [has] a gay, [Hed] [steady] unconquered [heart] spirit.(2/ to be transported to the licensing officer -- an affidavit of quantities, descriptions and values, etc, and Regulation VI provided that no goods were deliverable within an insurrectionary district, except to persons whose loyalty and good faith should be certified by an officer of the Government or a duly appointed Board of Trade [there] in such district, by whose approval and permission only the same should be unladen or [held disposed] delivered, [?] [is certain that Board, ?? ??] [could not from ?? ?? ?? ??] Of course no goods could be unladen or disposed of at Mobile under the conditions of Regulation VI, as none could be shipped from Mobile under the conditions and requirements of Regulation V. [In respect to the] [shipment of merchandize from an] [insurgent port, ?? ?? ??] [only any insurgent] [revolted] [State, Regulation] [VI ?? ?? a ?? requirement] [?? ?? to the requirement] In respect to the issuing of permits for the Shipment of merchandize from a revolted State, Regulation