Near Orange Court House, Va.,           August 12, 1862. While we are resting a little I will endeavor to write you a few lines. We have b...

Executive Mansion, Washington, August 11, 1862. MY DEAR GEORGE: You will have seen by the papers that Pope has been running his hea...

Camp Near Culpeper, Virginia , August 17, 1862, Sunday. The battle of Cedar Mountain, or, correctly, Slaughter's Mountain, or, in...

Headquarters Second Mass. Infantry, Washington, D. C, July 12, 1865. General Orders, No. 26. To The Officers And Men Of The Seco...

Marien Villa, V ö slau, September 8, 1862. My Dearest Mother : I wish it were possible for me to say anything that would interest you...

Legation of the United States, Vienna, August 26, 1862. My Darling Little Mary : I am writing to you a mere apology for a letter. I w...

Edward Gardiner Abbott was the eldest son of Hon. Josiah G. Abbott, and was born in Lowell September 29, 1840. He was fitted for college at...

Our killed, wounded, and captured did not amount to more than 600. We might have captured a whole brigade at one time during the battle, bu...

Jackson struck Pope yesterday! It was a terrible blow, for the numbers engaged. Several thousand of the enemy were killed, wounded, and tak...

Political news it would be absurd to record; for our information is more than limited, being frequently represented by a blank. Of the thir...

Maryland Heights , October 6, 1862. Everything continues quiet with us. We have a nice camp and are beginning to make ourselves comfort...

Maryland Heights , September 26, 1862. In my last letter, I wrote that we had orders to march the next morning. Our whole corps was rou...

On Picket Near Culpepper, August 13, 1862. At last I believe I have a chance to write you an account of our doings during the last fe...

The Richmond papers of yesterday mention two severe skirmishes on the Rappahannock within a week The enemy are retreating through Culpeper,...

Lynchburg. — Mr. —— and myself arrived here last night, after a most fatiguing trip, by Clarksville, Buffalo Springs, then to Wolfs Trap S...

City full of rumors and but little truth in any of them. Wilkes laid before me his plan for organizing the Potomac Flotilla. It is syste...

Culpepper C. H., Va ., April 8, 1864. . . . With General Grant and several members of his staff, I visited Cedar Run Mountain, twelve m...

This has been a sad day for the three houses that stand on the Nahant shore, with the moon looking so calmly down on them, the moon who kne...

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

Nahant. After that comparatively long time of inaction it begins again, and near home this time. We get the news late here, and we were at ...