Headquarters of the Army, WASHINGTON, April 29th, 1861 Maj. Gen. PATTERSON SIR: I wrote to you by Major Porter on the 27th, and also ...

Boston, May 19,1862. H on . Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War, Washington, D. C.: Sir, — I have this moment received a telegram in...

Regt. passed by to Strawberry Plains to turn over horses and equipments. Saw Col. Garrard and got his photo. Bade him goodbye. Gave me a co...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, Hilton Head, Port Royal; S.C., April 3 , 1862 . Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War: SIR: ...

Cairo. We had blankets given us this last week and new accoutrements throughout. If they would only change our guns now we would have nothi...

A. M. Rainy. Camp equipage and clothing left at Helena arrive— SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa Infantry,”  An...

Lawley and I went to inspect the site of Mr Mason's (the Southern Commissioner in London) once pretty house — a melancholy scene. It ha...

The weather is sultry. We occupied the day in cleaning our clothing and accouterments. The long journey of eight hundred miles on coal cars...

The weather continues quite hot. All men in our brigade whose time is out by the 1st of October were mustered out today and they turned ove...

The Fourteenth and Twentieth Army Corps started on their way for Washington City. Our corps remained in camp all day. The sick were all sen...

All is quiet. Sherman's army received orders to march on the 10th. Our wagon trains are loaded with thirty-five days' rations, and ...

Bivouac Near Fairfax Station, December 15, 1862. I will take the opportunity of a few hours' respite from marching, to let you kn...

It is quite cool. Our camp is just inside the city limits. We tore down several houses and fences with which to build “ranches,” and then s...

BosTON , Feb. 5th, 1861 To His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief : At our interview this morning you requested me to put the matter w...

I helped to move the field hospital into town this morning. Most of the wounded able to go, have been sent home on thirty-day furloughs, an...

It is the same old thing over and over. The first thing we do when sick and wounded soldiers come to the hospital, is to pack all their clo...

A light rain yesterday was followed by rain most of today, and all was quiet along the lines until late this evening, when there was heavy ...

It rained again nearly the whole day. We formed a line of battle early this morning, but soon returned to our “ranches” with orders to keep...

Still at Chantilly. Every thing quiet, nothing particularly exciting; yet we are so restless. Mrs. C. and myself rode to the camp at Fairfa...

Quite pleasant today. We cleaned up our clothing and accouterments for inspection. We are getting fixed up very nicely in our camp and all ...