Washington , May 25, 1862. Intelligence received this morning shows that General Banks has been attacked in force at Winchester and is ...

The last year has been the richest of my life. For the first time in my life, I have been sure, every day, that I was doing good. I have wo...

To-day (Saturday, P. St., May 31) they have loaded all their wounded into wagons for transportation in their retreat. Colonel Kenly and...

Headquarters Second Mass. Infantry, Washington, D. C, July 12, 1865. General Orders, No. 26. To The Officers And Men Of The Seco...

Winchester, Virginia , Friday, May 30, 1862, Braddock Street, at Mr. Bernhardt's. The first news of an attack on Banks's colu...

I should not intrude now into your anxiety, your grief, but because your son was, let us say is, so dear to us. He had won the universal lo...

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

camp Near Edinburg , April 6, 1862. It might be a June morning, by its sunshine and warmth. This broken valley, the “interval” of two s...

Camp Near Edinburg, Virginia , April 4, 1862. We make life musical these hot sunny days with the screeching whir of shells or the sharp...

Camp Near Strasboro, Virginia , March 31, 1862. I was glad to hear, from your letter of the 23d, that you have been doing something, an...

Camp Four Miles Beyond Strasburg , March 28, 1862. I had just finished my letter yesterday, and started to mail it, when I was turned b...

camp Bivouac, Near Strasburg , March 27, 1862. I must write you a line from our hillside-wooded bivouac this bright morning. On T...

winchester, Virginia , March 25, 1862. A blue March morning, and I have just returned from the battle-field. A sight to forget. I quest...

Camp Near Newtown, June 14, 1862. After about eighteen days' absence, here we are back again in Virginia, camped on the identical...

May 29, 1862. I am going to start to give you a detailed account of what has transpired during the last week; whether I shall be interr...