We move slow to-day, reach Gordon, the junction of the Milledgeville Railroad, by noon. The work of destruction is now going on; the railroa...

This morning our brigade moves on three miles to the Macon and Savannah Railroad, and for our allotment destroy six miles of track. Night co...

Left this morning at 4, marched five miles, and halted on the Orange and Alexander Railroad, tore it up one and a quarter miles, and camped....

Marched four miles to-day and tore and burned up the same amount of railroad. SOURCE: Louis Leon,  Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier...

Started at 4 this morning and marched ten miles toward Culpepper Court House. We tore up the railroad from Manassas to the Rappahannock Rive...

No. 256. Report of Brig. Gen. Philip D. Roddey, C. S. Army, commanding District of North Alabama, of operations December 1-15, 1864. HEADQ...

No. 255. Report of Brig. Gen. Lawrence S. Ross, C. S. Army, commanding Ross' brigade, of operations October 24-December 27, 1864. HDQR...

Camp near Rappahannock River, Culpeper County, Va., October 20, 1863. This is the first chance I have had to write to you since we started o...

Went through town at 5 this morning, to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, with Johnson's division and part of Hampton's Legion, to te...

LYNCHBURG, November 10 , 1861 . His Excellency JEFFERSON DAVIS, President Confederate States: I have received dispatches from Bristol and...

Baltimore, Nov. 21st, 1859. To A. P. Shutt,           Harper's Ferry: The Petersburg troops with Artillery are on our Mail West, which h...

No. 224. Report of Col. Thomas Saylor, Twenty-ninth Michigan Infantry, of operations December 13, 1864. HDQRS. TWENTY-NINTH REGT. MICHIG...

HEADQUARTERS,           Before Jackson, Miss., July 12 , 1863 -- 12 m. Port Hudson being ours, and Holmes repulsed at Helena, the Missou...

HEADQUARTERS,           Army before Jackson, July 14 , 1863 — 8 p.m. GENERAL: All is well with us. I think I have troops enough. Johnsto...

Bamber's Station, A. & C. R. R. February 7, 1865.  Our regiment led the corps to-day. The 17th Corps strikes the railroad at Midway,...

February 10, 1865. Had no "general” this morning (our signal for getting up), so when the "assembly" sounded we climbed fro...

South bank of Scull Creek, December 3, 1864.  We have laid here all day, being our first rest since leaving Atlanta. Had to wait for the 1...

November 12, 1864. The Rubicon is passed, the die is cast, and all that sort of thing. We to-day severed our own cracker line. At 11 a...

To Liberty and beyond on railroad towards Lynchburg. Worked on the railroad, tearing up and burning, etc. [We heard] various rumors, general...

Staunton, Virginia , June 8, 1864. Dear Uncle : — We have had another very fortunate campaign. Everything lucky —except Hunter got the v...