Frederick, Maryland , September 13, 1862. Dear Uncle : — We retook “Old Frederick” yesterday evening. A fine town it is, and the magnif...

Frederick, Maryland , September 13, 1862, A. M. Dearest : — Yesterday was an exciting but very happy day. We retook this fine town abou...

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 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 Flat Top. — Today Colonel Scammon with a small escort went over to Packs Ferry to look after affairs with Major Comly and his boat-bui...

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

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...

Bright, cold, snow on ground. Ride with Dr. Joe, A. M. Webby doesn't like the bit; it brings the blood. A good horse, I think. T...

Gauley River, 8 Miles South Of Summersville, September 11, 1861. Dear Lucy : — Well, darling, we have had our first battle, and the e...

Marched seventeen miles, drove enemies' pickets out of Summersville, followed nine miles to Gauley river. Enemy entrenched on a hill,...

Sutton, Or Suttonville, Virginia , September 5, 1861. DEAREST: — We are in another camp of fine views. This is the last stronghold of o...

Reveille at daylight, then roll call, breakfast. Packed up waiting for orders to march, while in line. The command being given, we began ou...

Last night, about ten or eleven, five companies of Colonel Moor's (Second German Regiment) Twenty-eighth Regiment arrived from Clarksbu...

Organized at Camp Dennison, Ohio, June 10 and mustered in July 6, 1861. Moved to Point Pleasant, W. Va., July 31. Attached to 2nd Brigade, ...