I have a hundred axmen in my charge, felling timber on the mountain, and constructing rough breastworks to protect our left flank. General...

Haines Bluff. Yesterday, as I was strolling through the ravines, picking berries, I came across a spring of delicious water, cold and pure. ...

Haines Bluff, Miss.   We get no news from the outside world. Not even the New York Herald or Detroit Free Press, those blatant organs of sec...

Changed our position to Young's Mill, a strong position nine miles from Newport News. Throwing up breastworks, reënforced by four piec...

We advance early this morning. The Seventh are soon deployed on the skirmish line, and are soon skirmishing, for on such occasions the Seven...

Throwing up breastworks all day, and we now are impatiently awaiting the enemy. Provisions are scarce; had a couple of hard crackers and a t...

When we had marched seven miles we heard cannonading. The enemy is trying to cross the river at Jacob's Ford, but our boys kept them bac...

To-day the whole army is throwing up breastworks. The sharpshooters are out in front, my corps out to-day. We made ourselves small pits to l...

This morning at 3 we moved to the right until daylight, when our corps was again sent to the front. We advanced toward the enemy's works...

Camp Gregg, Va .,           May 7, 1863 . We have just returned from the field of the great battle. It was a complete victory for us. It w...

Camp near Richmond, Va . ,           June 26, 1862. I returned to camp on Monday because we expected to have a fight. Our brigade was orde...

CAMP HOSKINS, PULASKI COUNTY, KY.,           November 4, 1861. (Received November 6.) Brig. Gen. GEORGE H. THOMAS,           Commanding, C...

HEADQUARTERS,            August 26, 1864. (Via Petersburg.) General A. P. Hill attacked the enemy in his intrenchments at Reams' Stat...

A picket came in this morning and reported the enemy advancing. We were put in line of battle to receive them, and after marching one mile u...

Our regiment was sent on picket this morning at daylight-one mile from camp and two miles from the enemy. Companies B and G are on the left,...

A little firing to-day. Went to the river to throw up breastworks. Worked all night. We put up one piece of cannon right on the river bank, ...

To-day the firing was very heavy. We hit the Yankee gunboat again to-day, and made the dust fly out of their breastworks. SOURCE: Louis Le...

The weather is still very warm. To-day we hear heavy cannonading in the direction of Sherman's line. This evening we advance towards the...

It is raining this morning. It is rumored that the rebels will come out from Corinth to-day. The echoes from Pope's guns are again heard...

This morning we form our line and commence throwing up breastworks. The men work with a gusto, and before night the Seventh has a strong lin...