At 3 a.m. long roll sounded and the First Louisiana fell into line. Colonel Holcomb gave instructions to be ready to embark at the earliest...

Beckley's farm near Raleigh, Virginia. — A. M. All night a high wind and driving cold rain; mud in camp deep. Like the Mount Sewell sto...

camp Near Winchester , March 15, 1862. Of all the platitudes and jingles that ever amused and deluded a chivalrous people, the asserti...