Battle of Ball's Bluff. Gen. Stone crossed the Potomac near Conrad's Ferry, across Harrison's Island, with Col. Baker's brig...

Pleasant, comfortable day. Nothing new. Read “Heart of Mid-Lothian.” Played chess, Captain Adams, Fifty-sixth. Sedgwick, Twentieth, is here...

Headquarters First Brigade. July 24, 1864, 10 P. M. Dear Mother , — I write, as I promised. I got back safely from the lines. Just be...

Washington, D. C. , July 1,1864. Here it is July, Frank, and I am not out of this miserable place yet. I expect now to go down to the f...

Washington , June 14, 1864. Your kind letter I found here on Sunday last when I returned from Baltimore, where I passed last week very...

Rappahannock Station, Va ., May 3, 1864. We move to-morrow morning with the grand army of the Potomac. I have been here three days, and...

Mr. Chairman And Fellow Citizens , — I could wish that it had been your fortune to present this testimonial to one who would have done more...

Boston , April 27, 1862. My Dear Motley : I saw Lowell day before yesterday, and asked him if he had written as you requested and as I ...

Camp Near Seneca , October 30, 1861. We still keep the camping-ground in which we were when I last wrote, and we are enjoying the brigh...

Camp Near The Little Seneca , Saturday Night, 9 o'clock, P. M. He who predicts the morrow in this life has his labor for his pai...

Camp Near Conrad's Ferry , October 24, 1861, Thursday Morning. The violation of every rule and maxim of military law, the exactio...

Maryland Heights , September 29, 1862. I rode over to Harper's Ferry, yesterday afternoon, with Bob Shaw and Charley Whittier (the ...

Near Darnestown , September 10, 1862. I have time to write a word to say that I'm safe and well. We are on the move all the time an...

Washington, D. C , December 5, 1862. To his Excellency, John A. Andrew, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Governor:...

Headquarters Remainder Banks' Expedition, No. 194 Broadway, New York , December 31, 1862. . . . . As regards myself, I ride with ...

Headquarters 2nd Division, 2nd Army Corps, Harrison's Landing, Virginia, July 26, 1862. Brigadier-General S. Williams , Assi...

Headquarters Sedgwick's Division, Sumner's Army Corps, Harrison's Landing, Virginia, July 11, 1862. Brigadier-General S...

Wintheop , July 7, 1862. My last date from you is Fair Oaks, June 25th. How much has happened to you since then! I am very anxious to h...

No. 21. Report of Brig. Gen. John Sedgwick, U. S. Army, commanding Second Division. HDQRS. SEDGWICK'S DIVISION, SUMNER'S A...

Baltimore , Sunday Morning, May 11. I fear daily lest your kind disposition shall cause you to take too much trouble in my behalf. I kn...