Headquarters First Brigade, First Division, Ninth A. C. Before Petersburg, Va ., July 27, 1864. Yours of the 21st-24th reached me las...

Headquarters First Brigade. July 24, 1864, 10 P. M. Dear Mother , — I write, as I promised. I got back safely from the lines. Just be...

Headquarters First Brigade, First Division, Ninth Army Corps. Before Petersburg, Va ., July 23, 1864. Evening. My Dear Mother , — T...

Washington , June 14, 1864. Your kind letter I found here on Sunday last when I returned from Baltimore, where I passed last week very...

Baltimore , June 11, 1864. Dear Father : — I received your letter yesterday, and could not imagine what you meant by “my letter in the ...

Pretty miserable this morning Left at twenty minutes past five for Baltimore Good night's sleep. Plenty of quinine has kept off fever s...

Much better this morning. Leave Baltimore at ten A. M. Reach New York at seven P. M. Found mother and father here at Fifth Avenue. Cheers w...

Leave for Boston. SOURCE: Francis Winthrop Palfrey,  Memoir of William Francis Bartlett , p. 102

Governor is to write Wilson about Brig. SOURCE: Francis Winthrop Palfrey,  Memoir of William Francis Bartlett , p. 102

Saw Wilson at state-house. Promised to do what he could at Washington. If he does, it will be all right. SOURCE: Francis Winthrop Pa...

Reached Washington Wilson had seen President. Papers had gone to Secretary of War. SOURCE: Francis Winthrop Palfrey,  Memoir of Will...

Went to Secretary. Spoke kindly. Sent (sic) my papers referred to General Halleck. I expect that will be the last of it. SOURCE: Fra...

To Baltimore. SOURCE: Francis Winthrop Palfrey,  Memoir of William Francis Bartlett , p. 103

Washington , May 12, 1864. Dear Mother , — I reached here last night from Fredericksburg. I was hit the second day's fight in the W...

Start at ten A. M. in ambulance for Belle Plain, fourteen miles, hard road. Colonel ––– crazy most of the time. Got on board transport at f...

Long, miserable day. Hear that Sedgwick is killed. I would rather that any other officer in the army was gone than he. His body has come. A...

Moved into Fredericksburg this morning at sunrise, in a brick house here. Lived in ambulance three days and nights. Long enough. I have bee...

Ambulances moved to Chancellorsville, halting here at half past nine A. M. Moved to Pine Grove Church. Park wagons here. I don't know w...

Move at three A. M. to the front. It will be a bloody day. I believe I am prepared to die. God bless my dear friends at home, — mother, fat...

Hard marching. Thrown twice. Not hurt. Brier caught in horse's flesh. Marching till four A. M. SOURCE: Francis Winthrop Palfrey,...