We are now on the “heaving sea and the bounding wave.” We were aroused yesterday morning at four o'clock, ordered to prepare breakfast a...

Camp near Fredericksburg, Dec. 28th, 1862. The battle of Fredericksburg has been fought and—lost. We are now engaged in the laudable occup...

Camp near Fredericksburg, Va.,           December 24, 1862. The Yankees seem loath to make another advance since the good whipping we gave...

WE LEAVE PLYMOUTH. On the 8th of December the regiment embarked on the schooner Skirmisher for Newbern, arriving there on the evening of the...

Where Valor Proudly Sleeps: A History of Fredericksburg National Cemetery, 1866–1933 By Donald C. Pfanz Many books discuss in...

Vienna,             September 22, 1863. My Dear Holmes : I am perfectly aware that I do not deserve to receive any letters or anythin...

P. M. — “Rosecrans [at Chickamauga] has been badly beaten”! Such is the shock the dispatch gives us this evening. After months of success ...

Athens, Ga. , May 12, 1846. My Dear Brother , . . . Toombs misrepresented me on the Oregon question. The Senate's Resolutions as am...

Headquarters Delaware Department, Wilmington, Del. , July 7th, 1863. Dear, dear Cousin Lou: I said I would write you so soon as the...

24 West 31st Street, New-York , Jan. 18th, 1863. My own dear Son: I hope my letters reach you more regularly than yours do me, for ...

Camp Near Falmouth, Va. Dec. 22nd, 1862. My dear Mother: Since the late disastrous affair at Fredericksburg, as before, I look in v...

New-York , Dec. 20th, 1862, Saturday. My own dear, dear Son: I have many times during the past week thought of writing you, but I c...

New-York , December 20th, 1862. My dear Lusk: Your last letter has not been answered before this, because of the reason that you — ye...

Camp Near Falmouth, Va. Dec. 16th, 1862. My dear Mother: Back again once more in the old camp, sound as a dollar. Would that 10,000...

Provost Marshal's Office, 4th Division, Army of the Tennessee, near Tallahatchie, Miss., December 8, 1862. Still we tarry by th...

Camp Maskell, Near Gauley Bridge , December 20, 1862. Dear Uncle :— Dr. Webb went home on a thirty-day furlough a few days ago. Our goo...

Burnside has retreated across the Rappahannock. The Rebels can now set off the battle of Fredericksburg against the battle of Antietam. The...

A cold, bitterly cold, night but a bright, fine day. Major McIlrath and Dr. Webb left for Ohio today. Major under orders from General Ewing...

Rained last night; raw and cloudy with a little snow this morning. Sun shone in the afternoon. We hear today of the crossing by General Bur...

We have nothing additional from Murfreesborough, but it is ascertained that the bridges burned by the enemy on the Virginia and Tennessee R...