Camp on Corinth Road, Miss., May 27, 1862. Why don't you write me just a word, if no more? I'm almost uneasy. Not a line from h...

Mexico. Mo., Aug. 3d, 1861. Dear Father: I have written to you once from this place and received no answer, but as Orvil writes t...

East Quincy. Mo., July 13th, 1861. Dear Father: I have just received yours and Mary's letters and really did not know that I ...

Organized at Mattoon, Ill., and mustered in June 28, 1861. Ordered to Ironton, Mo., July 3, 1861. Operations on line of Hannibal & St. ...

Private, Co. I, 21st Illinois Infantry Killed December 30, 1862, Murfreesboro, Tennessee Stones River National Cemetery Murfrees...

Private, Co. C, 21st Illinois Infantry Killed December 30, 1862, Murfreesboro, Tennessee Stones River National Cemetery Murfrees...

FT. DONELSON, via CAIRO, Feb. 20. – The number of field pieces taken in the Union victory here is much larger than heretofore telegraphed.  ...

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 18. – A disgraceful affair occurred at Jefferson City yesterday.   A local Sheriff seized a contraband on the arrival of the...

Private, Co. I, 21st Illinois Infantry Killed December 30, 1862, Battle of Stones River Stones River National Cemetery Murfreesboro, Tennes...

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 18. A disgraceful affair occurred at Jefferson City yesterday.   The local sheriff seized a contraband on the arrival of th...