The Ninth and Fourth Ohio, Fifteenth Indiana, and one company of cavalry, started up the mountain between seven and eight o'clock. The C...

Camp Tompkins , October 19, 1861. Dearest: — I got your letter of last Sunday yesterday. You can't be happier in reading my letter...

Camp Ewing, Mountain Cove, Six Miles Above Gauley Bridge , Wednesday, October 9, 1861. Dearest : — Captain Zimmerman and I have just ...

Gauley River, 8 Miles South Of Summersville, September 11, 1861. Dear Lucy : — Well, darling, we have had our first battle, and the e...

Marched seventeen miles, drove enemies' pickets out of Summersville, followed nine miles to Gauley river. Enemy entrenched on a hill,...

Sutton, Or Suttonville, Virginia , September 5, 1861. DEAREST: — We are in another camp of fine views. This is the last stronghold of o...

Bulltown , September 3, [4], 1861.   Wednesday Morning. Dearest : — Let me say first that the army mail arrangement is perfect. All le...

Saw General Rosecrans and staff. Caught our guard without a salute. We go with him south today. A good time with McCook and his Ninth. Marc...

Last night Dr. Joe and I did our best to house in Mrs. Sea's barn (a good Union lady, two sons in the army), the Germans of the Ninth, ...

Organized at Camp Harrison near Cincinnati, Ohio, April 22, 1861. Moved to Camp Dennison, Ohio, and duty there till May 27. Reorganized at...

Organized at Camp Dennison, Ohio, May 27 to June 13, 1861. Ordered to West Virginia June 16. Attached to 3rd Brigade, Army of Occupation, W...

The 10th Indiana, Col. Manson, who bore so noble a share in the Mill Spring battle were recruited in the vicinity of Lafayette, Indiana, an...

Interesting Account by an Eye-Witness We cut the following letter from a Cincinnati paper.   It is a spirited account of the battle. ...

The Ninth Ohio, known as the German Regiment, under command of Col. Bob McCook, was in the battle at Somerset.   It was the 9th that decide...

. . . during the war, has been their ability to destroy their enemies in hand to hand combat.   They have constantly flattered themselves t...

. . . have it in contemplation to present a flag to each of the regiments engaged in the Mill Spring fight, the Fourth Kentucky, Tenth Indi...

. . . of the part taken by his brigade at the battle of Cumberland as he calls it cannot be too often or conspicuously printed. “Seeing...

LOUISVILLE, Feb. 25. – the 9 th Ohio and 2 nd Minnesota regiments this afternoon received two spending flags from the loyal ladies of Loui...