February 10. No day so thoroughly spring-like as this, yet I feel we are to miss the unlocking delight we realize in the New England trans...

Camp White, West Virginia , October 2, 1863. My Dear Son : — I received a letter today from Uncle Birchard. He says you appear to be ve...

September 28, 1863. By the exercise of a little strategy, this morning I caught a chameleon who had ventured out of a hollow tree to go...

Just at dawn, I woke up and got out on the platform of the carriage, which is the favorite resort of smokers and their antithetics, those w...

May 30, 1862. We have our horses saddled all the time since 2:30 yesterday morning. Owing to Colonel Kellogg's continued illness he...