Isabella Sarah Peyre Porcher 7/21/1864 letter to T L LaFar re: son's whereabouts

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From the personal wartime papers of Dr. Theodore. A. LaFar of Charleston, South Carolina (born 14 October 1831 in Charleston and died 28 December 1912 in Chattachoochee, Florida and buried in the French Protestant Huguenot Cemetery in Charleston).
A Google search reveals the 1890 proceedings of the South Carolina legislature that accepted four South Carolina Confederate Battle Flags from Dr. LaFar on December 22, 1890 .  According to the minutes of the Legislature, LaFar had fled Richmond on April 2, 1865 and taken the flags with him.  The Legislature recognized and summarized his service as Director of the South Carolina Hospital Bureau.  Duties of the SCHB included "forwarding packages to soldiers in the field, establishing state hospitals, aiding prisoners in the hands of the enemy, receive the wounded after battle and to 'succor' a South Carolina soldier wherever found."
Stained and mounted on one sheet, mounted on another.  Separation at folds, originally, well worn.
A letter from the wife of a wounded soldier writing Dr. LaFar thanking him for placing an ad in the South Carolina papers (attempting to find relatives of he determined had been captured in a May or June 1864 battle) and she recognized her son as being one of the one's  listed..
Text as follows:
So. Ca.
Black Oak, July 21st, 1864
Dear Sir,
The advertisement you put
in the papers about ten days since
respecting Messers Drayton, Bamwell,
Lewis, Porcher & c. was a source of
the greatest relief to the frineds of these
gentlemen.  Please inform me if you
can how you obtained the information
and to what prison they were conveyed.
My Son Alexander Porcher was one
of them of whose fate we had been
in dreadful uncertainty, until ass-
ured by your advertisement that
he was a
prisoner and unhurt
.
Is it possible to get money to him
or a letter -- Any information on the
subject would be most thankfully
received either addressed to myself or
my son, Surgeon F. Peyre Porcher
in charge of the So. Ca. Hospital, Petersburg.
Respectfully & c.
I
.
S. Porcher
Using a paid genealogy site, I have determined that Alexander Mazyck Porcher was born on 30 August 1831 and died on 13 October 1893 and is buried in the St. Stephen Episcopal Church Cemetery in Berkeley, South Carolina.  The 1850 census lists "I. S. Porcher" as a female, age 46, as head of a household with five children, one of whom was Alexander.  His father, William Porcher had died in 1833, so that is why Isabel Porcher was head of the household.
I found great references to Francis Peyre Porcher - also referenced in the letter - that helped determine the letter writer is Isabella Sarah Peyre Porcher....
Francis Peyre Porcher was born at Ophir Plantation in St. John’s, Berkeley County, South Carolina on December 14, 1824 to Dr. William and Isabella Sarah Peyre Porcher. Through his mother's side, he was a descendant of the well-known English botanist, Thomas Walter author of
Flora Caroliniana
, the first catalog of the flowering plants of South Carolina published in 1788.
Porcher graduated from the South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) in 1844 after which he enrolled in the Medical College of the State of South Carolina.  He graduated with first honors, out of a class of seventy-six, in 1847 and his thesis,
A Medico-Botanical Catalogue of the Plants and Ferns of St. John’s, Berkeley, South Carolina
, was published later that same year by the faculty of the Medical College.  After graduation Porcher spent two years traveling and studying medicine in Europe. Upon his return to Charleston, he entered practice and in 1852 with Dr. E. Belin Flagg opened the Charleston Preparatory Medical School of the Medical College and lectured on materia medica and therapeutics.
During his long affiliation with the Medical College, Porcher served as professor of clinical medicine and chair of materia medica, which position he held from 1874 to 1891. He also served as attending physician at the Marine Hospital in Charleston from 1855 to 1860. Porcher was editor of the
Charleston Medical Journal and Review
and served as president of the South Carolina Medical Association (1871), the Medical Society of South Carolina (1874), and as vice-president of the American Medical Association (1880).  With fellow Medical College alumnus Julian J. Chisolm (1830-1903), Porcher opened a hospital specifically for the care of plantation slaves.
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