COLUMBUS, KENTUCKY.   Last Tuesday we received marching orders from Paducah. Wednesday morning about 4 o'clock Co. A with some fifty sic...

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,           August 24, 1863. Hon. E. M. STANTON,          Secretary of War: On June 27, ultimo, I had the honor to addres...

This morning our camp is staked off, and we take our position and stake our tents. Our brigade now consists of the Seventh, Fiftieth and Fif...

This morning the steamer Aleck Scott proceeds down the river loaded with the Belmont prisoners, accompanied by federal officers from Cairo,...

We receive[d] orders to hold ourselves in readiness to move at a moment's notice, in light marching order. SOURCES: Daniel Leib Am...

. . . morning . . . we move[d] from the Fort, marching down the river towards Columbus, Kentucky. While passing down along the shore, we be...

CINCINNATI, November 9 , 1861 . Major-General FRÉMONT: General Grant did not follow his instructions. No orders were given to attack...

Headquarters, District of Cairo,          December 30, 1861. DEAR WASHBURNE: Yours of the 21st is at hand. I was no less astounded...

I shall detain the Senate for but a moment longer. General Halleck, in an official communication addressed to the adjutant general of th...

Bird's Point , November 20, 1861 Part of Pitt's (Col. W. Pitt Kellogg's) cavalry are here. We are glad to see them as it wi...

Bird's Point , November 13, 1861. Home once more. We all call this home now. Just as we landed last night the Iowa 7th was forming ...

Gen. Winder and all his police and Plug Ugly gang have their friends or agents, whom they continually desire to send to Maryland. And often...

Culpepper C. H., Va. , April 27, 1864. . . . A few more days and all will be ready for the spring campaign. General Burnside's corp...

April 16, 1864. . . . I have been very busy, so much so that up to this hour, 10 P. M., I have just found a moment to write to you, and...

LouisvIlle , March 6, 1864. . . . I have just returned from the theatre, not at all delighted with having gone, but the General would g...

Nashville , February 13, 1864 . . . This is my thirty-third birthday. In looking back to my earliest remembrance of events, how full of ...

Executive Office, Iowa , April 3, 1862. Hon. Israel Washburne, Jr., Governor of Maine, Augusta, Maine: Sir: — I have just received ...

How about our Brigadiers? You know I long ago recommended Crocker, Dodge and Perczel and I yet think them among our best colonels as you wi...

Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives: As this is the first time in the history of our State that the same person has bee...

PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL.] NEAR MEMPHIS, March 10 , 1864 . General GRANT: DEAR GENERAL: I have your more than kind and characteris...