Scope and Contents Morse discusses his attempt to mail letters to his mother through the postal blockade. He describes that he arrived there in Long Island after hearing of Uncle John's sickness, helping nurse him. Uncle John's feet, legs, and stomach were swollen by dropsy. Morse states that public opinion is changing and capitalists are failing. If war continues, a merchant from New York said that every man in New York would be called in, banks were drained. Even those who wanted to 'crush' poor Southerners...