First division, and one section of our battery and two sections of Hazlett's Battery, went across the Potomac as far as Kearneysville. W...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,              May 12 , 1864 — 9 . 15 a.m. Major-General WARREN, Commanding Fifth Corps: The ord...

BOYDTON ROAD, NEAR PETERSBURG,           April 2 , 1865 — 4 . 40 . Col. T. S. BOWERS, City Point: We are now up, and have a con...

April 9, 1865 We all were up, according to habit, about daylight, with horses saddled, having staid near Stute's house for the nigh...

April 8, 1865 We have been making our usual little picnic to-day — say nineteen miles — and have got about half-way between Burkeville ...

April 7, 1865 The country about Deatonsville (a cluster of half-adozen brick farmhouses) is a great improvement, full of hills, not hig...

Headquarters Army Of Potomac Richmond and Burkeville R.R. 10 miles north of Burkeville April 6, 1865 We are pelting after Old Lee...

April 5, 1865 Last night, at 9.30, came a note from Sheridan, dated at Jetersville, saying that he was there, entrenched, with the 5th ...

April 4, 1865 We had camped last night round about Sutherland's Station, as I told you. The fields there were covered with waggons ...

April 2, 1865 Last night was a busy one and a noisy. Some battery or other was playing the whole time, and, now and then, they would al...

April 1,1865 You will see the April Fool was on the Rebels; for they did not know that, the night before, we had sent down an entire co...

SEPTEMBER 3, 1863 – 12 . 15 p.m. Colonel LOWELL, Commanding, &c. Centreville: Colonel Devin, commanding the cavalry brigade s...

March 31, 1865 The rain held up about ten A.M. and the sun once more shone. By this time our lines, running east and west, had been mov...

March 30, 1865 I take advantage of a rainy morning to draw you a map and start a letter, to explain and recount the deeds of yester...

March 28, 1865 You must let me off with a few lines to-night, because I have some little packing yet to do and would like a good modicu...

March 26, 1865 My letter of yesterday only gave a part of the day's work. Our train went briskly up to the front and stopped not ...

March 18, 1865 This morning I sent you a telegraph, which may be rather late, I fear, though I sent it at the earliest chance. It was t...

From Grant we got a despatch that he would come up, with some ladies and gentlemen, to see our left and to review a few troops. The General...

March 10, 1865 What think you we did yesterday? We had a “Matinee Musicale,” at the Chapel of the 50th New York Engineers. Nothing but...

March 8, 1865 Yesterday, as I hinted in my last, we had a toot, of much duration. At ten A.M. the General got a telegraph (one of those...