Summit Point , Sept. 4, 1864. You must not feel despondent about public affairs. Lincoln is going to be reelected. Every officer ought ...

Camp Near Centreville , July 26, '63. You will write me, I know, all you learn about the Fifty-Fourth. I see that General Beauregar...

July 9th (?). What glorious news about Vicksburg! — and I am particularly glad to have that and Gettysburg come so near the 4th of July...

Camp Brightwood , June 17, '63. I have been expecting orders for some days past — but the raid into Pennsylvania seems to be blowin...

Camp Brightwood , June 5, 1863. I do not see what you and Mr. Child find to be so hopeful about, — I see no evidence of yielding on the...

Our loss this morning is reported at 15,000 and that of the Rebels at 40,000. Jimmy Lowell was killed, 1 and his mother sees it for the fi...

Boston , Feb. 9, '63. . . . You will be very glad to hear that Bob Shaw is to be Colonel, and Norwood Hallowell Lieutenant-Colonel ...

Boston , 1 Feb. 4, 1863. I am very glad to see that the Negro Army Bill has got so well through the House, — Governor Andrew is going ...

Headquarters, Army Of The Potomac, Sept. 19, 1862. We had a severe fight day before yesterday — a good many officers on our side woun...

Aug. 9, 1862. I was very glad to get your letters of Friday and Saturday, with photograph of Jimmy, all safe: it is a great thing to ha...

Harrison's Landing , July 27, '62. . . . It is painful to think that you were still in suspense about dear Jimmy. George will h...

Harrison's Bar , July 18, 1862. Your two last letters have told me more about Jimmy than I had learned from his friends here — they...

Camp Near Bladensburg , Sept. 9, '61. You see I am at Washington first, after all. I was ordered from Rochester, August 31st, the o...

Warren , Aug. 8, '61. I should think the hardships of the poor wives would interfere more or less with recruiting — I hope it does....

Warren , Aug. 5, '61. I am expecting daily to get official notice to enlist for three years instead of five —   had I had this thre...

Warren , July 22, '61. I write out of sheer dulness; a mounted officer without a horse, a Captain without a Lieutenant or a comma...

Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio , July 20, 1861. I am "located" (or " stationed" I believe is the proper word now) in wh...

Franklin, Pennsylvania , July 15, '61. I am just in from a ride of thirty-four miles — have averaged over twenty-five for the last ...

New York , July 1, '61. Dear Mother, — Got my orders this morning all right — have taken the oath of allegiance, and signified my ...

Washington , June 19, '61. Don't let any one blame Governor Andrew — he is good and thoughtful, and if he is sometimes misled b...