At daylight a man shot and instantly killed. He had no particular stopping place, had become partially crazed; in the night had crept beyond...

I introduce the following letter to a friend, as sufficiently explicit as to the occurrences since the last date: CHAIN BRIDGE, VA., Sept....

VIRGINIA GIRLS OF SWEET SIXTEEN DID NOT LOVE US. Weather hot; two more trains of Rebel wounded pass. Report that General Wadsworth and oth...

February 13, 1863. Tonight I have been talking with Cato Waring, one of my old nurses in the hospital. The attempt to give a report of his...

Iuka, Miss., October 26, 1863. Let your pocket ’kerchief float out on the breeze, halloo a little and throw up your bonnet. It's on...

A crazy man was shot dead by the guard an hour ago. The guard dropped a piece of bread on the inside of the stockade, and the fellow went i...

Point Lookout. The President and Secretary of War to-day (Jan. 2, 1864), commissioned me to go down to Point Lookout, and deliver to Gen. M...

HEADQUARTERS THIRD BRIGADE, Camp near Williamsport, Md. [May 28, 1862.] CAPTAIN: Agreeably to instructions received from headquarte...

Raleigh, Virginia , March 24, 1862. Dear Uncle : — Your letter of the 14th came to hand the day before yesterday. We all feel pleased t...

Thursday. Damn Yankee : I lose with you all the cold blood in my veins and all patience. Why misuse, desecrate, the holiest words and c...

Camp South Of Strasburg , March 28, 1862. You must be expecting, by this time, to hear some account of what we have been up to for thes...

Headquarters District Of South Alabama, Fort Gaines , Ala., April 19, 1865. My Dear Daughter Bettie: I have just returned from Mobi...