July 25, 1864 We moved up to the rear of the corps on the 21, and had just got comfortably fixed for the night when orders came that we ...

CAIRO, April 9. – Maj. Kuykendall of the 31st Ill., who left the field of action on Monday evening, reports that Gen. Johnston was killed, ...

CHICAGO, March 13. – Special dispatches to the Post from Cairo 12th, say matters are little changed. A lieutenant of the 60th Ohio arr...

3,000 Rebel Prisoners ask to be Armed and Enrolled in the Armies of the Union. Clarksville Evacuated. WHITE FLAGS FLYING AT NASHVILLE. TE...

FORT DONELSON, Tuesday night, VIA CAIRO, Feb. 20. The number of field pieces taken in the Union victory here, is much larger than heretofor...

CAIRO, Feb. 17. A dispatch from Gen. Grant says that the fort surrendered unconditionally on Sunday night. Our cavalry are in hot pursuit ...

Organized at Jacksonville, Ill., and mustered in at Cairo, Ill., September 18, 1861. Attachced to District of Cairo to October, 1861. 1st Br...

Organized at Cairo, Ills., with 31st Illinois Infantry , and mustered in September 18, 1861. Attached to 1st Brigade, Military District of C...

Our loss Sunday at Pittsburg Landing heavy, embracing camp equipage and 36 field guns. By two o’clock Monday we had retaken our camp and bat...

Cairo, April 9. – Maj. Kuykendall of the 31st Ill., who left the field of action on Monday evening, reports that Gen. Johnston was killed, ...

We have been permitted to peruse a letter from Francis Stickney, of the old 31st ( Gen. John A. Logan ’s old regiment) to his parents in th...