Same place, front of Twin Mountains, June 20, 1864, 11 a. m. Rebels still on the mountain, a good deal of our artillery, a little of ...

June 6, 1864. I will try and send you this to-day. Our postmaster never calls for letters, though we could send them if he would. I wil...

September 29th. Had just got asleep last night when it commenced raining. I dressed myself (that means put on my boots) gathered up my ...

Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, Jackson, Tenn., February 1, 1863. I'm on duty as “field officer of the day,” and have been temping a...

Camp at Lagrange, Tenn., November 15, 1862. We're having more of a rest here than we anticipated when we arrived. Suppose that the ...

Tuscumbia, Ala., August 3, 1862. In the last 15 days I have only written you once; partly because I have been so busy, more, because of...

July 19, 1862. I don't know whether I have any business sending such a document as I enclose, but guess its no difference. Two spie...

Near Corinth, Miss., May 19 ,1862. Our regiment now is acting as a kind of rear guard for Pope's division. The enemy's cavalry ...

Near Farmington, Miss., May 8, 1862. I've been within one and a half miles of Corinth to-day. Didn't see anything especially wo...

Headquarters 7th Illinois Cavalry, Cape Girardeau, Mo ., February 19, 1862. Aren't things working right now? Do you notice the ac...

Cape Girardeau , February 9, 1862. I, like a good boy, wrote you a long letter yesterday, and, like a careless fellow, lost it. I told ...

Headquarters, 3d Battalion, 7th Illinois Cavalry, February 3, 1862. I am pretty sure that we will start on a scout to-morrow that wil...

Bird's Point, Mo. , January 20, 1862. It goes confounded good once more to stand on boards, and be able to sit down without wet com...

Bird's Point, Mo. , January 13, 1862. After all the excitement and promise we have had of a trip into Dixie, we are still here in ...

Bird's Point , January 10, 1862. Since daylight yesterday morning we have been all ready with five days' rations and expecting ...

Holly Springs, Miss., January 7, 1862. The colonel and I were ordered to report here to give evidence before the “Court of Inquiry,” c...

Bird's Point , January 5, 1862. We received the box of provisions to-day in very good order considering the length of time they h...

January 2, 1862. We've waited patiently until after New Year for the box of provisions, and nary box yet. Have given it up for a go...

Bird's Point , December 29, 1861. Your letter giving us notice of your sending a box came to hand yesterday with express charges in...

Bird's Point, Mo. , December 22, 1861. This is a dark, dismal, snowy and confoundedly disagreeable Sunday. Cold, sloppy and nasty! ...