Middletown, Maryland , September 26, 1862. Dear Uncle : — Lucy is here and we are pretty jolly. She visits the wounded and comes back i...

Camp Northwest Of Brookville, Maryland, September 10, 1862. Dearest : — We are now about twenty-five or thirty miles northwest of Was...

Washington City , September 6, 1862. Dear Uncle : — We left Upton's Hill and its earthworks to be guarded by less serviceable troop...

Upton's Hill, Fairfax County, Virginia, September 4, (P. M.), 1862. Dearest : — I received your good letter of the 29th yesterday...

Upton's Hill (six Or Eight Miles From Washington), Virginia , September 1, 1862. Dear Mother : — We are in the midst of the great...

Upton's Hill, Near Washington , September 1 , 1862. Dearest : — Very severe battles were fought day before yesterday and the day be...

Camp Green Meadows , August 12, 1862. Dear Mother : — I received your good letter of the 2d the day before yesterday. On same day recei...

Camp Green Meadows , August 12, 1862. Dear Uncle : — I write merely to say that I have concluded to accept [the] colonelcy of the Seven...

I sent this morning to J. C. Dunlevy, Lebanon, the following dispatch: “I am glad to hear that the Seventy-ninth is likely to be promptly f...

Camp Green Meadows , August 10, 1862. Dearest Lute : — All your names are sweet. “Lu” is good; I always think of the girls at Platt’s s...

Camp Green Meadows, Mercer County, Virginia, August 8, 1862. Dear Uncle: — . . . . I have not yet decided as to the Seventy-ninth Re...

Green Meadows , August 6 [5], i862. Dearest : — Adjutant Avery, Lieutenant Hastings, and some good men go home on recruiting service. ...

. . . From General Cox I hear that I can't send captains on recruiting service. This disappoints Captains Drake and Sperry. I have name...

I set the men to drilling in the new target practice. Rode with Bottsford over to see Mrs. Lilley, an old lady whose husband, James Lilley,...

Camp Green Meadows. — Returned from [to] Camp Green Meadows today. General Cox thinks Colonel Scammon will be ordered to act as brigadier b...

Camp Green Meadows , July 23, 1862. Dearest : — I today received a dispatch from Captain Clements that I have been appointed colonel o...

24th, A. M. — A year ago tonight you and I walked about Camp Chase looking at the men cooking their rations to be ready to leave the next m...

Marched four companies to Bluestone; bathed. A good evening drill. Last evening I fell into a train of reflection on the separation ...

Organized at Goshen and Camp Dennison, Ohio, and mustered in September 29, 1862. Attached to 79th Ohio Infantry as Company "K." ...

Organized at Camp Dennison, Ohio, August, 1862. Ordered to Kentucky September 3, 1862. Advance to Crittenden, Ky., September 7. thence move...