SHERWOOD FOREST, CHARLES CITY CO., April 25, 1861. In these times you must write often, if only a few words. I have no letters to-day from...

Headquarters. Third Brigade Mass. Vol. Militia, ANNAPOLIS, Apr. 23, 1861 To His Excellency JoHN A. ANDREw , Com. in Chief DEAR SIR:...

Annapolis, M'd April 29 '61 D. V. We reached Old Point yesterday without incident, and I dined with the Domicks in the For...

Address: Capt. W. T. Lusk, A. A. A. Gen. 1st. Brig. 1st. Div. 9th. A. C. Washington, D. C. (To be forwarded) Sept. 18th, 1862. ...

There were a half-dozen good-looking members of the Seventh Regiment called upon the Commander-in-Chief of the Armies and Navies this after...

Massachusetts and Rhode Island troops in large numbers arrived to-day. . . . I called on Sprague, the Governor of Rhode Island, with Nicola...

At the request of the Tycoon, who imagined he had seen something significant steaming up the river, I went down to the Navy Yard. Saw Dahlg...

. . . . This has been a day of gloom and doubt. Everybody seems filled with a vague distrust and recklessness. The idea seemed to be reache...

This morning Doug. Wallack came rushing into the office, looking for Seward with what he called important news. He said that the two ships ...

This morning came a penitent and suppliant crowd of conditional secessionists from Baltimore, who, having sowed the wind, seem to have no p...

HEADQUARTERS, Annapolis, April 24 , 1861 . Major-General PATTERSON: DEAR SIR: After leaving you with Mr. Felton at Philadelphia...

ANNAPOLIS ACADEMY, Monday night, April 22nd, 1861 General B. F. BUTLER, Commdg. Mass. Vols. Sir : Upon Consultation, my Officers do...

PHILADELPHIA, April 20th, 1861 Memorial of plan and reasons for proceeding to Annapolis His Excellency, GOVERNOR ANDREW I have ...

I forgot to say that yesterday before dinner I drove out with some gentlemen and the ladies of the family of Mr. George N. Sanders, once Un...

Head quarters, Middle Department, Baltimore, Md., June 1,1862. General Orders, No. 14: The Major-general commanding, having received ...

Washington, June 20th, 1861. My Dearest Mary , — I told you that I went with Seward in the evening of Monday to see the President. He...

Dearest Jim , — We are in for the fight at last and we will carry it thro' like men. One week ago to-day appeared the President'...

20th April, 1861. Anna and the baby are perfectly well. Her brother Bob and my brother Sam marched yesterday with their regiment, the 7t...

Left camp very early this morning. A heavy downpour of rain. Passed through Georgetown, on through Washington. The mud in Pennsylvania Aven...