MEADOW BLUFF, May 29, 1864. Dear UNCLE :— Contrary to my expectation when I wrote you a few days ago, we are still here. We are detaine...

No rise of water on account of the rain of the 7th. — A fine time, election day (13th). The Twenty-third — five hundred and fourteen — unan...

Camp White, Near Charleston, Virginia , March 22,1863. Dear Uncle : — We came out of the wilderness a week ago today. We are now pleasa...

Went into Camp White (after Colonel White of the Twelfth), opposite the mouth of the Elk. SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, ...

On Christmas my wife's cousins, Lieutenant Nelson and privates Ed and Ike Cook and Jim McKell 1 dined with me; all of Company D, Eigh...

Sergeant-Major Eugene L. Reynolds, of Bellefontaine. A bright, handsome, ambitious, soldierly youngster; brave as a lion; so game in appear...

Camp Maskell , December 14, 1862. Dearest :— Very glad to have a good letter from you again. Very glad indeed the bag is found — glad y...

Making sand walks around quarters. A threatening morning and a snowy day. General Scammon passed today with his staff for Fayette: Captain ...

A bright, fine winter day. We moved our quarters fifty yards up the river into a house lately occupied by a daughter of Mr. Riggs. Its wind...

A cheerful bright morning and a sound sleep dispels the gloom resting on my views of the future. During the night a courier came to my tent...

Camp On Munson's Hill, Near Washington, (say Eight Miles), August 30, 1862. Dear Lucy : — Things all seem to be going well with G...

Put up our tents between Forts Ramsay and [Buffalo] at Upton's Hill. On Friday, fighting heard west and southwest of us — supposed to b...

Camp Green Meadows , July 23, 1862. Dearest : — I today received a dispatch from Captain Clements that I have been appointed colonel o...

Camp Flat Top Mountain , May 25, 1862. Dearest : — Dr. Joe has a letter from McCabe in which he speaks of your anxiety on my account. I...

Camp On Flat Top Mountain , May 20, (Tuesday), 1862. Dearest : — Here we are “back again” — fifty or sixty miles in rear of the advan...

Camp On Flat Top Mountain On Line Between Mercer And Raleigh Counties , May 20, 1862. Dear Uncle : — The last three weeks has been a ...

Camp on Flat Top Mountain. — Monday, 19th, marched from camp on Bluestone River to this point (yesterday) — a hot dry march — with knapsack...

Sunday!! Came again unawares upon me at Princeton. At 1 or 2 A. M. aroused to prepare to move. Moved off quietly; got off, again unmolested...

Same Camp, Giles County, Virginia. — Still dry and dusty! We shall soon need rain! Queer need in Virginia! No bread in camp today, but bean...

Camp at north of East River near line between Giles and Mercer Counties, eleven miles from Giles Courthouse. — We moved here to a strong po...