I have seen a few notes that indicate that there are a set of letters from Colonel Slemon that were at the Museum of the Confederacy. As anyone seen these letters? If they haven't been published, some enterprising young doctorial candidate ought to footnote and publish them.

Re: Col W F Slemons Letters Collection
By:wdoshier
Date: 11/18/2006, 11:24 pm
In Response To: Col W F Slemons Letters Collection (W Doshier)

William F. Slemons Papers
Eleanor S. Brockenbrough Library
The Museum of the Confederacy
The voluminous wartime letters of Colonel William Ferguson Slemons, 2nd Arkansas Cavalry, comprise 62 files, including his amnesty oath and parole papers. Slemons, born in Tennessee in 1830, was a 31-year-old Monticello, Arkansas lawyer when he enlisted in July 1861.
Col. Slemons� correspondence, sent primarily to his wife Mattie, reveals and educated man possessed of unusual powers of observation and a dry wit. On campaign in Kentucky in 1861, Slemons praises the state�s springs and caves, but notes �the people are generally wealthy and seem to care but little for the cause of the south.� In the autumn of 1862 he waggishly comments, on hearing of so many pregnant wives and ailing infants, that �the men should engage in some other Sport.�
As did many less literary soldiers, Slemons regales his wife with descriptions of the local weather, details of the campaign, and political rumors. For nearly two years, Slemons served with Brigadier Gen. James R. Chalmers� cavalry division in northern Mississippi and Tennessee. In the summer of 1864, in command of the brigade, Col. Slemons joined Gen. Sterling Price�s invasion of Missouri. Captured in October 1864, Slemons spent the winter of 1864 and spring of 1865 in prison camps at Johnson�s Island, Ohio, and Rock Island, Illinois.
Once back in Arkansas, Slemons renewed his law practice, and served as a justice of the peace, judge, and three-term congressman. He died in Monticello, Arkansas in 1918.
A wartime ambrotype of Col. Slemons in uniform, and a postwar ambrotype of an older Slemons in civilian clothes are both in the collection of The Museum of the Confederacy.