And the next morning which was the 30 we left and marched down toward Chickahominy And about three oclock in the eavning we was led in to th...

Dined with Wise.   Met Hooker, Butterfield and Fox. Hooker was in fine flow. Before dinner we talked about Halleck and his connection with ...

Flat Top Mountain. — A clear, hot, healthy summer day. General McClellan telegraphs that he has had a “desperate battle”; a part of his arm...

Vienna , August 31, 1862. My Dear Holmes : Bare, bare, bare of news, events, objects of the slightest interest to you or any one else,...

At 10 A.M. I called by appointment on Mr Sedden, the Secretary at War. His anteroom was crowded with applicants for an interview, and I ha...

HARRISON’S LANDING, 4th August, 1862. DEAR PET: I thank you for your kind, long letter. You extend me hope.   You suggest withdrawing m...

The bombardment at Vicksburg was very heavy and continuous this morning. I had a long conversation with General Johnston, who told me th...

Once more all men are execrating Gen. Huger. It is alleged that he again failed to obey an order, and kept his division away from the posit...

Gen. Beauregard is doubly doomed. A few weeks ago, when the blackness of midnight brooded over our cause, there were some intimations, I kn...

It is not yet ascertained what amount of ordnance stores we gained from the battle. SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones,  A Rebel War Clerk...

Great indignation is expressed by the generals in the field at the tales told of the heroism of the amateur fighters. They say stripped a d...

The ambulances are now bringing in the enemy's wounded as well as our own. It is the prompting of humanity. They seem truly grateful fo...

Everybody is upon the tip-toe of expectation. It has been announced (in the streets!) that a battle would take place this day, and hundreds...

The ambulances are coming in with our wounded. They report that all the enemy's strong defenses were stormed, just as we could perceive...

It is said some of the enemy's mounted pickets rode through the city last night! Northern papers manifest much confidence in the near a...

When shall we recover from this fatal trip into Pennsylvania? General Pettigrew, of North Carolina, fell on the retreat, at a little skirmi...

Headquarters 6th Army Corps, Culpeper , October 1, 1863. To George Woodruff, Esq. Dear sir: I have the honour to acknowledge...

Washington, D. C , December 5, 1862. To his Excellency, John A. Andrew, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Governor:...

Headquarters 2nd Division, 2nd Army Corps, Harrison's Landing, Virginia, July 26, 1862. Brigadier-General S. Williams , Assi...

Headquarters Division, Near Fair Oaks Station , June 5, 1862. My dear cousin: The General asks me to write you a short account of o...