CAMP 15 MILES NORTH OF JACKSON, MISS.—Another month has passed away since my last writing—a month big with events in the history of the Fort...

Finished a letter. Henry Drake brought me a letter from Will Hudson. Good but rather discouraging. Beat Capt. Nettleton at two games of che...

We have been beaten in an engagement near Jackson, Miss., 4000 retiring before 10,000. This is a dark cloud over the hopes of patriots, for...

Colonel Joseph Jackson Woods was born in Brown County, Ohio, January 11, 1823; was appointed to West Point Military Academy in June 1843, to...

The ten companies composing the Seventeenth Iowa Infantry were ordered into, quarters at Keokuk, Iowa, between the dates January 25 and Marc...

The Eighth Regiment of Iowa Infantry was organized in compliance with the proclamation of the President, dated July 23, 1861, and the procla...

SECOND COLONEL, SEVENTEENTH INFANTRY. David B. Hillis is a native of Jefferson county, Indiana; and was born on the 25th day of July, 1825. ...