Rain all night and this A. M.! Army movements very slow. Vicksburg the great point of interest for a month past. Things looking like fight ...

Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, Lagrange, Tenn., April 24, '63. We have just returned from the hardest and yet by far the most pleas...

Board of Survey Office, Lagrange, Tenn., April 6, 1863. I was in Memphis a few days since. It is quite a lovely town and quite Northe...

Tuscumbia, Ala., August 3, 1862. In the last 15 days I have only written you once; partly because I have been so busy, more, because of...

Camp at Rienzi , July 17, 1862. I think there is more point and policy in that General Order 92 than in any one that has yet been issu...

Detachments of Federal troops are now marching into the city every few hours, guarded by (mostly) South Carolinians, dressed in home-spun, ...

To-day the city is in fine spirits. Hooker had merely thrown up defenses to protect his flight across the river. The following dispatch was...

Up and off as early as usual. I carried a carbine and rode as usual in the ranks. Saw a large flock of wild turkeys. Advance ran after thre...

It being a part of our business to notice events of a public character we trust we shall be pardoned if we have a word to say concerning the...

Benton Barracks St. Louis Mo. Jan. 15th 1864. Friend Caverly: Sir Below is a letter that was picked up by a member of Co. H., 9th Iowa Cav. ...

The importance of physical training to him who goes into battle, whether officer or soldier, can have no better illustration then in achievm...