The First New Hampshire Battery came up, and went into position on our left. SOURCE: John Lord Parker,  Henry Wilson's Regiment: Histo...

The caissons went back into the woods; the left section of the battery went back to position on the other side of the ford. In afternoon we ...

Started out at half-past two A.M., and went back into the woods about a mile and a half. The First New Hampshire Battery was relieved by the...

Cannonading heard toward Warrenton, in the afternoon. SOURCE: John Lord Parker,  Henry Wilson's Regiment: History of the Twenty-second...

Received two months' pay. Left camp at seven o'clock at night, in an awful rain-storm; marched through the mud, and arrived at Hartw...

Reveille sounded at half-past two A.M. Started from Hartwood Church at nine o'clock, and marched to Weaverville. Went into camp at seven...

Reveille sounded at two A.M. Left camp at five o'clock, and marched to Manassas Junction, where we went into position on the left of the...

In position at Manassas Junction, while troops were passing all day. Capt. Martin received his appointment as chief of the corps artillery. ...

Reveille was sounded at one A.M. Marched till half-past four, to Centreville, where we saw the Ninth Massachusetts Battery. Went into camp a...

In camp at Gum Springs all day. It began to rain in the morning, and rained all night. Left Gum Springs at four o'clock the next afterno...

The cavalry had a fight at Aldie. SOURCE: John Lord Parker,  Henry Wilson's Regiment: History of the Twenty-second Massachusetts Infan...

Reveille sounded at one A.M. Left camp at three A.M., to go on reconnoissance with the cavalry. Fell in with them and the flying-artillery, ...

Started from Middleburg at half-past nine A.M., and stopped in the road three hours while eight or ten thousand cavalry passed us. Saw a lot...

To-day begins the Pennsylvania campaign. Reveille sounded at four A.M. Left camp at six o'clock. Marched through Leesburg, and crossed t...

Started at five A.M.; marched through Buckeyetown, Md. We passed a great many fields of wheat and corn. The roads were muddy. Crossed the Mo...

In camp near Frederick. Gen. Meade took command of the army to-day. SOURCE: John Lord Parker,  Henry Wilson's Regiment: History of the...

Left camp at eleven A.M.; marched till nine P.M. The day was pleasant, but it rained during the night. Marched fifteen miles. SOURCE: John...

Started at five A.M.; marched through Liberty, Johnsonsville, Middletown, Union Bridge, Uniontown, and Frizzleburg, and went into camp at si...

NEW YORK, February 22, 1854. MY DEAR SIR,—I was delighted this morning on taking up the  Enquirer  to see that you have taken a bold stand...

WASHINGTON, February 7, 1854. DEAR SIR,—The bill to organize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas, with a provision to repeal the Missou...

AVERSE as I am to the continuance of a controversy with my colleagues on the subject of Mississippi politics, I am not the less constrained ...

Oh, my dear, dear home, the home of my childhood-my life! Oh, the old time-beaten, moss-covered house where my eyes first saw the light, and...

Through the dark and lurid atmosphere of war the light of "Nature's own exceeding peace" still softly falls on the earth. The ...

I had set myself to reading Maury's "Physical Geography of the Sea," after a long deferring; but now that he has come out as a...

A glimpse into a heart which has always been closed, both to God and man, — what a chaos it discloses! Yet with all the elements of order th...

Esther dead! Gone home two days before I heard or dreamed of it! But since she has gone home, — since it is only a glorious release for her,...

They write to me of her funeral, of the white flowers beside her head, and of her own lilies of the valley strewn over her in the grave by o...

This is the gala week of spring. None of the early flowers have quite faded, and the apple trees are in full bloom, while elms and maples ar...

I have been free for a few days, and have taken a journey, a flying tour among some of my friends. How it quieted me, to be with my peace-lo...

Still the same old weariness of study; "weariness of the flesh." Books are treasures, but one may work among treasures even, diggi...

Weary, weary, too weary to listen patiently to the heavy Sabbath bells; far too weary to sit in the church and listen to loud words and loud...

Crackers all around the house at night. Fire-crackers, torpedoes, pistols, and bell-ringing, are enough to make one sick of one's countr...

Attended church to-day at the Second Presbyterian, or "Union Church" as it is called. It is the only one in the city, I am told, w...