Peter Alexander was the South's best known war correspondent. He wrote primarily for the Savannah Republican, a newspaper he had edited for a while in the 1850s, but he also provided coverage of the war in Virginia for the Mobile Advertiser and Register and the Richmond Daily Dispatch. Alexander's stories about the inadequacies of the Confederate quartermaster corps and the resulting lack of clothing of soldiers from Georgia. As a result of a single story written in October 1862, Georgians donated more than 1,000 pairs of shoes for their soldiers serving in Virginia.