Field Hospital near Spottsylvania Court House, Va., May 17, 1864. I received your letter of the 3d inst. this morning. You express regret...

Warm, with alternate sunshine and showers. With the dawn recommenced the heavy boom of cannon down the river. It was rumored this morning ...

Bright, but windy and dusty. There is an excitement at last; but it is sullen rather than despairing. No one seems to doubt our final succ...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,              May 12 , 1864 — 9 . 15 a.m. Major-General WARREN, Commanding Fifth Corps: The ord...

NEAR SPOTSYLVANIA COURT-HOUSE,                       May 12 , 1864 — 6 . 30 p.m. The eighth day of battle closes, leaving between 3,...

HEADQUARTERS ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES,                       Near Spotsylvania Court-House, May 11 , 1864 — 8 . 30 a.m. We have n...

Read Independents and "Night and Morning," by Charles Leper. Hard fighting today at Spottsylvania, nearly a drawn game. Ours if e...

Went down with Thede to Spottsylvania. Visited all the fortifications. Went to the picket line. Could see the rebs very distinctly in rifle...

During the day moved to Todd's Tavern. A large open space. All the trains of the army parked here. An ocean of teams. Pulled out a shor...

. . . . I have not known the President so affected by a personal loss since the death of Baker, as by the death of General Wadsworth. While...

Good! I have been looking for it! The First and Second Divisions of the Sixth Corps arrived in Washington last night just in season by doub...

It was sultry and warm until 4 o'clock p. m. when relief came through a fierce thunder-storm; no fighting; remained quietly in camp all...

Cloudy, with a bracing air; have thrown up a line of rifle pits along our front. The army is quiet to-day; very little cannonading heard. D...

We were aroused several times during the night by sharp firing on the skirmish line. About daylight we received an order to move further to...

My prayer for Lee's withdrawal last night was granted. Our Division moved to the “Bloody Angle” this morning; it virtually joined our r...

Rained all night and incessantly till 10 o'clock a. m. There has been desperate fighting by the Sixth and Second Corps on our left all ...

Very sultry until about 5 o'clock p. m. when the heavens became shrouded with dark and threatening clouds and a terrific thunder-storm ...

Warm and sultry. The stench from the dead between the lines is terrible. There has been hard fighting on our right all day. As for the Tent...

Our army's line is about five miles long this morning and runs northwest by southeast. General Hancock occupies the right followed by G...

It has been very warm and sultry. Our forces commenced a flank movement last night. We withdrew from the enemy's front about 10 o'c...