CAMP AT STEPHENSON'S DEPOT, VIRGINIA,           December 20, 1864. DEAR UNCLE: - We broke camp at Camp Russell yesterday at early daylig...

CAMP RUSSELL, VIRGINIA, November 20, 1864. MY DARLING: – You see the Army of the Shenandoah has a name for its camp. Named after the Gener...

CEDAR CREEK, November 2, 1864. DEAR UNCLE: — We are waiting for the fall rains and the Presidential election before withdrawing for the se...

CAMP AT CEDAR CREEK, VIRGINIA, NOVEMBER 2, 1864. MY DARLING: — We get trains through from Martinsburg regularly once in four days. We retu...

Intelligence reaches us this morning that Sheridan has achieved a great victory over Early in the valley of the Shenandoah, after much hard ...

The victory of Sheridan has a party-political influence. It is not gratifying to the opponents of the Administration. Some who want to rejoi...

HARRISONBURG, VIRGINIA, September 26, 1864. DEAR UNCLE:—You have heard enough about our great victories at Winchester and Fisher's Hil...

Camp nigh Harrisonburg, Virginia, September 28, 1864. [After the battle on the Opequon] the enemy fell back to Fisher's Hill, some eig...

Marched fifteen miles and gained the battle of Winchester. Colonel Duval and Captain Hastings wounded near the close of the battle. I took c...

CAMP NEAR STRASBURG, VIRGINIA, September 21, 1864. DEAREST:— As I anticipated when I added a few words in pencil to a half finished letter...

CEDAR CREEK, NEAR STRASBURG, August 16, 1864. DARLING: – We are still here observing the enemy and skirmishing with him daily. Yesterday wit...