CUMBERLAND, MARYLAND, February 19, 1865. Dear Uncle:— Yours of [the] 17th received today. I will send you five hundred dollars by express ...

CAMP RUSSELL, December 17, 1864. MY DARLING: — No certainty about things yet. We fired fifty guns yesterday and one hundred more today ove...

An inspection of First Brigade. (The) Twenty-third looked well, but alas! very few of the old men. I shed tears as I left the line. It never...

Bright, but windy and dusty. There is an excitement at last; but it is sullen rather than despairing. No one seems to doubt our final succ...

CAMP PLEASANT VALLEY, MARYLAND,  August 8 (Monday), 1864.  DEAREST:— We have had pretty good times the last week or ten days. Easy marching,...

Camp Crook, Charleston , July 5, 1864. Dearest : — Your last from Elmwood, June 16, reached me last night. Very glad to get so good and...

Staunton , June 8, 1864. Dearest : — We reached the beautiful Valley of Virginia yesterday over North Mountain and entered this town th...

Meadow Bluff, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, May 19. l864. Dear Uncle : — We are safely within what we now call “our own lines” af...

Meadow Bluff, May 19, 1864 Dearest: — We got safely to this point in our lines, two hours ago, after twenty-one days of constant marchi...

[ Meadow Bluff, May 24, 1864] The more we learn of the Rebels, etc., at Cloyd's Mountain, the greater was our victory. It is well ...

A foggy morning. Teams still slowly crossing. Brigade flag carried by Brigdon hit two or three times in battle of Cloyd's Mountain. Onc...

Monroe County, In Bivouac , May 13, 1864. Dearest : — We are all right so far. Burned New River Bridge, etc., etc. A most successful ca...

Battle of Cloyd's Mountain, or as Rebs call it "Cloyd Farm." Lasted one hour and a half. The Twenty-third and Thirty-sixth, u...