Two men in the guard-house. We are improving. Baltimore whiskey got into the camp some way and these men found it. At dress parade to-night,...

Maryland Heights, Va., September 21st, 1862. Toward evening of the 13th we left Frederic City and marched out on the National Turnpike tow...

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

Sunday a year ago was the 14th. South Mountain and its losses and glories. How the sadness for the former fades and the satisfaction with t...

Address: Capt. W. T. Lusk, A. A. A. Gen. 1st. Brig. 1st. Div. 9th. A. C. Washington, D. C. (To be forwarded) Sept. 18th, 1862. ...

17th. To-day our rejoicing is somewhat subdued by the news of the surrender of our forces at Harper's Ferry. Burnside's corps is sa...

MIDDLETOWN, MD. Sept. 15th, 1862. Mrs. Lusk: Capt. Lusk desired me to pen you a line, as he did not have the time or opportunity, i...

Camp White , March 21, 1863. Dearest : — You left this morning. Don't think I am going daft after you. I am in my tent facing the p...

Camp Reynolds , January 4, 1863 Dearest: — The same old camp, but “Reynolds,” after our gallant Sergeant-Major Eugene M., [L. Reynolds...

Sergeant-Major Eugene L. Reynolds, of Bellefontaine. A bright, handsome, ambitious, soldierly youngster; brave as a lion; so game in appear...

Camp Maskell , December 14, 1862. Dearest :— Very glad to have a good letter from you again. Very glad indeed the bag is found — glad y...

A cold morning, but a bright warm sun melts the snow on all the low ground. Lieutenant Smith says some of our prisoners at South Mountain h...

A cold morning. Snow, two to four inches, on the ground and more falling. Five wounded men returned last night, restored and ready for duty...

A bright, fine winter day. We moved our quarters fifty yards up the river into a house lately occupied by a daughter of Mr. Riggs. Its wind...

Camp Maskell, near Gauley Bridge, West Virginia. — November 21, went on board [the] Izetta bound up the Ohio; 22d, grounded on a bar (crawf...

Camp Maskell, Gauley Bridge , December 1, 1862. Dearest Lu : — We are on the south side of the Kanawha — same side as the Eighty-ninth ...

Middletown, Maryland , September 18,1862, (P. M.) Dear Mother : — I am steadily getting along. For the most part, the pain is not sever...

Enemy on a spur of Blue Ridge, three and one-half miles west. At 7 A. M. we go out to attack. I am sent with [the] Twenty-third up a mounta...

Middletown , September 16, 1862. Dear Mother : — It would make you very happy about me if you could see how pleasantly and comfortably ...

Middletown, Frederick County, Maryland, September 15, [1862]. Dear Mother : — I was wounded in the battle yesterday. A musket-ball pa...