Commenced to build a stable for horses, three hundred feet long. Captain Bess, our chief of artillery. Our battery remained at Muddy Branch ...

April 7. Some of you can imagine how heartily I enjoyed the morning gallop from station to station, to look after our soldiers. They endur...

April 9. Everything was going on quietly until we heard heavy cannonading in the direction of the Ferry before sunrise this morning. The G...

No. 2. Report of Col. Joseph R. Hawley, Seventh Connecticut Infantry. HEADQUARTERS U.S. FORCES,           Hilton Head, S.C., April 10 , ...

March 3. The plot thickens. Our steamers are coaling up and the stores and ammunition are going aboard. This looks southward and before th...

CAMP SAXTON, BEAUFORT, February 8, 1863. I feel that it was a little cowardly in me to run away from camp yesterday, but I knew that three...

Beaufort, S. C., January 13, 1865. Retired about 11 p. m. and woke up here this morning. A very handsome, small town, about the size of Ca...

Near Beaufort, S. C., January 26, 1865. We have had heavy rains and now very cold weather without being in the least prepared for it. We m...

CAMP SAXTON, BEAUFORT, S. C., February 3, 1863. At break of day we were at Beaufort and my sick and wounded were being carefully conveyed to...

January 9, 1863. This morning, the adjutant and I, with eight oarsmen, went down to Hilton Head in our surf boat. The distance cannot b...

January 17, Evening. This has been a triumphant day for our regiment. We have marched to Beaufort and back in such style as to turn jee...

January 18, Sunday evening. Such a transparent day and cool north winds make even South Carolina endurable, while it lasts, I mean. Whe...

General Hunter drove us out to the camp of the black regiment, which he reviewed. After our return I saw Mr. McKim and Lucy off, the steame...

An exciting day. This morning Mr. Eustis came over and told Mr. Hooper that we ought to be ready to go at a moment's notice. For two we...

Somerville , Dec. 7th, 1863. My Dear Sir , — It gives me great pleasure to present, at your request, a statement of the impression made...

Confidential. ‘Wabash’ Dec. 6, 61. Port Royal, SC My Dear Sir Raymond Rodgers returned this morning from a splendid reconnaissanc...

Private Wabash, 15, Nov. 61 Port Royal.       Dear Mr. Fox, The Atlantic goes to-morrow to return. She takes my detailed official...

Private Wabash Monday 11 Nov. 61, Port Royal My Dear Sir— The Coatzacoalcos goes in the morning — there is nothing very special t...

Headquarters 1st Division, Battery Island, June 25th, 1862. My dear Mother: I have received your kind letters with their urgent r...

Beaufort, S. C . May 28th, 1862. My dear Mother: After 12 o'clock at night, and the certainty of a fatiguing day to-morrow, to be...