Beautifull & pleasant. we ware on battallion by light in the morning, afternoon we had Skirmish drill & dress perade 11 Oc Lieut J. ...

CAMP SAXTON, BEAUFORT, S. C., April 2, 1863. Evening. Such is the management here that my notes no longer date from satisfactory advance p...

Grandmother went to Aunt Mary Carr's to tea to-night, very much to our surprise, for she seldom goes anywhere. Anna said she was going t...

P. T. Barnum delivered his lecture on" The Art of Money Getting" in Bemis Hall this evening for the benefit of the Ladies' Aid...

The members of our society sympathized with General McClellan when he was criticised by some and we wrote him the following letter:  CANAN...

February 5. Lieut. [James B.] O'Neil informed me today that during the eight years of his military life in Texas, Utah and in the presen...

. . . and ladies of the city and country are invited to meet at the room in the north end of the Irving block, to consider the propriety of ...

SOUTHERN MOTHERS’ ROOMS, August 10. MR. M. SIMON—SIR: Accept the thanks of the Southern Mothers in Memphis for the handsome present of ...

. . . return their most grateful thanks to the Messrs. Greenlaw for the use of the rooms recently vacated by them, to remove to others more...

. . . return their most grateful thanks to Professor Winkler and the ladies who so kindly assisted him in the concert for their benefit on ...

EDITOR APPEAL:   The petition for a special policeman to perform certain duties for   the Mothers’ Rooms, having given rise to much discus...

Planters and others wishing to send donations of food, cotton or anything else, to the southern mothers, Memphis, are requested to send the...

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

Camp Ewing , November 9, 1861. Dear Mother : — It is a rainy disagreeable November day. I have done up all the little chores required, ...

Our Fair is in full blast. We keep a restaurant. Our waitresses are Mary and Buck Preston, Isabella Martin, and Grace Elmore. SOURCE: ...

Boston , December 22,1861. I read your message about funds and some other parts of your letter to our committee, and we voted to send o...

Found it quite exciting to have a spy drinking his tea with us — perhaps because I knew his profession. I did not like his face. He is said...

The North requires 600,000 men to invade us. Truly we are a formidable power! The Herald says it is useless to move with a man less than th...

Camp E. Of Capitol, Washington, D. C. May 16, '63. Started precisely at 12 M. Tuesday (427 men and officers, 437 horses), reached...

Executive Office, Davenport, Iowa , Dec. 16. 1862. John Clark, Esq., State Agent, Springfield, Mo. Dear Sir: — I have just seen C...