DUNLAP SPRINGS. We have built a snug log house and last night for the first and probably last time have slept in it; for our company has ord...

This morning orders are issued for all the troops in and around Corinth to be paraded on the review ground by eight o'clock, A. M., to w...

FORT HENRY, Tenn., February 9, 1862 Via. Cairo, the 11th. A force of the 2nd Illinois cavalry under Major Mudd, made a reconnoissance...

Near Corinth, Miss., May 19 ,1862. Our regiment now is acting as a kind of rear guard for Pope's division. The enemy's cavalry ...

Near Farmington, Miss., May 8, 1862. I've been within one and a half miles of Corinth to-day. Didn't see anything especially wo...

Camp near Point Pleasant, Mo., March 26, 1862. It is, to-day, very much warmer. I'm altogether too hot to be comfortable in my shir...

Cape Girardeau, Mo. , February 14, 1862. Sam arrived here to-night and brought me everything I could wish for except my watch. Jem Harp...

Cape Girardeau , February 9, 1862. I, like a good boy, wrote you a long letter yesterday, and, like a careless fellow, lost it. I told ...

Headquarters, 3d Battalion, 7th Illinois Cavalry, February 3, 1862. I am pretty sure that we will start on a scout to-morrow that wil...

January 2, 1862. We've waited patiently until after New Year for the box of provisions, and nary box yet. Have given it up for a go...

Bird's Point , November 20, 1861 Part of Pitt's (Col. W. Pitt Kellogg's) cavalry are here. We are glad to see them as it wi...

Cape Girardeau , November 11, 1861. We have just arrived here after a week's absence from any sign of civilized life. Saturday the ...

Bird's Point , October 27, 1861. I haven't written for a full week because I really had nothing to write and in fact I have not...

Bird's Point , October 10, 1861. I have just finished a dinner of cider, cake, bread, butter, etc. We have just been paid off and o...

Funeral services for James C. Earp, 84 years old, who died in Los Angeles Monday, will be conducted by the Rev. W. C. Loomis at 10 a.m. tod...

Norfolk [date torn off.] The colonel talks some to-night about a forward movement, and two regiments have come across the river from t...

Norfolk , September 16, 1861. We are still here at Norfolk and now in camp for we don't know how long. We got tents the day after ...

Cairo.   The refreshments and drygoods from home arrived Saturday. We were at Paducah then and they were taken care of by two or three of t...

Cairo.   Our Canton boys came down on time, and right glad I am to have them here. Colonel Ross's 17th Regiment got here the same day b...

A Civil War Captain and His Lady: Love, Courtship, and Combat From Fort Donelson through the Vicksburg Campaign By Gene Bar ...