Three Roads to Gettysburg: Meade, Lee, Lincoln, and theBattle That Changed the War, the Speech That Changed the Nation By Tim McGrath It...

Fort Snelling, Minnesota, August 5, 1872. Captain Porter Farley, Rochester, New York. DEAR SIR: Your letter has just reached me through th...

HAGERSTOWN, MD., JULY 8TH, 1863. To  Master  Stark  West,  four years old: MY DEAR LITTLE MAN: I wrote to mamma from our camp near Chamber...

CAMP NEAR HAGERSTOWN, MD.,           JULY 9TH, 1863. MY PRECIOUS WIFE: On yesterday I wrote a bungling letter to my "little man"...

Mustered for three months' pay. Started from Myersville at ten A.M. Marched to Hanover, and went into camp at half-past four, where we s...

Started at half-past five A.M., marched to Gettysburg, and reached there about noon. The battle commenced at four in the afternoon, and last...

In position all day and night. Rained all afternoon and night. Went over on the battle-field in the afternoon, and saw a great number of the...

Vicksburg is ours; Johnson defeated and his forces scattered; our work in Mississippi is performed, and we have taken up the line of march f...

Haines Bluff, Miss.   We arrived at our old camp yesterday—twenty days from the time we left it—the toughest twenty days of our experience. ...

We were awakened at 3 o'clock this morning to get ready to go, but remained until 4 p. m. During the day a train arrived with officers w...

A good work designed to remedy somewhat the unwholesomeness of the place, began today. A squad of men are furnished spades, hand barrows, wh...

JULY 1, 1863—3.35 p.m. General HANCOCK, or General HOWARD: I am moving the Twelfth Corps so as to come in about 1 mile to the right of G...

HEADQUARTERS TWELFTH CORPS,                     ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND,           TULLAHOMA, TENN., January 2d, 1864. MY DEAR SIR: I presu...

HDQRS. TWELFTH CORPS, ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND,           Tullahoma, Tenn., December 30, 1863. Maj. Gen. GEORGE G. MEADE,           Commandin...

Yesterday we made short marches, halting at every good shade to rest. The heat was very oppressive. At Clinton a brigade was sent to meet th...

Nephew of James Mercer Garnett (q. v.), and Robert Selden Garnett (q. v.); born in Virginia, in 1819; graduated from the United States Milit...

FIFTY-THIRD REGIMENT BY COLONEL JAMES T. MOREHEAD. The duty assigned to me to write a sketch-not a history—of the Fifty-third North Caro...

Saw Mack Sample, Will Stone and several of our company to-day that have been prisoners since the battle of Gettysburg. We get two meals a da...

WASHINGTON, D. C., [July 1, 1866]. MY DEAR ONE:— We missed you so much at Gettysburg [June 28-30]. It was cool, fine weather. The company ...

Camp near Orange Court House, Va., August 2, 1863. In a recent letter I promised to write you more about our campaign in Pennsylvania. O...