To the editor:
With reference to Monday's front-page article "Off the beaten tracks" by Laura Johnston: Mary Chesnut, wife of James Chesnut -- who was an aide to Gen. Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard and President Jefferson Davis of the Confederate States of America, was not a Union supporter.
BOBBIE BARNETT
Jonesboro, Ark.
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