Drill this morning from 6 till 7 O'clock Orders to march tomorrow at 12 M. to Cairo. Some disappointment among the men but generally res...

Reveille early this morning preparations for leaving Camp McClernand, Tents struck at a few minutes after 10 A. M. Baggage packed & load...

Camp Defiance Cairo Ills. Roll call, Squad drill this morning. after breakfast men set to work-cleaning up the groun[d.] Repeated firing of ...

I am still at Barnum's, and having transferred my sick to the charge of Mr. S., I have a little more time to think, and to journalize my...

CAIRO, ILL.   Since the last date I have been to busy to attempt anything in the way of writing. The Board of Trade Regiment was mustered in...

PADUCAH, KY.   On Saturday morning about five o'clock we were ordered to be ready to march in twenty-five minutes. We soon learned our d...

COLUMBUS, KENTUCKY.   Last Tuesday we received marching orders from Paducah. Wednesday morning about 4 o'clock Co. A with some fifty sic...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE TENNESSEE,           Near Vicksburg, June 29, 1863. A. H. MARKLAND, Special Agent, Post-Office Department: D...

CONFIDENTIAL.] SAINT LOUIS, MO .,  [ December 2 , ] 1861 . Maj. Gen. GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN, Commander-in- Chief, Washington, D.C.: ...

This morning the steamer Aleck Scott proceeds down the river loaded with the Belmont prisoners, accompanied by federal officers from Cairo,...

Headquarters, District of Cairo,          December 30, 1861. DEAR WASHBURNE: Yours of the 21st is at hand. I was no less astounded...

Tribune Office, Chicago, Ill., Dec. 30, 1861 Hon. SIMON CAMERON Sec. of War Dear Sir Evidence entirely satisfactory to myself and...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,           Saint Louis, January 30 , 1862 . Brig. Gen. U.S. GRANT, Cairo, Ill.: SIR: You ...

This morning, as the morning gun was fired from Fort Prentiss, at Cairo, through some carelessness of the gunner, a solid shot was fired wh...

After remaining in Camp at Mound City, Illinois, a few days, we proceeded down the Ohio as far as Cairo, where again the regiment goes into...

On the third of July, the regiment embarked on board the steamer City of Alton, for Cairo, Illinois. Passing down the river, the steamer is...

From Cairo, on the seventeenth of [July], the regiment is marched up the Ohio river as far as Mound City, where it is quartered in a large ...

U. S. Flagship St. Louis ,                       Near Fort Donelson ( via Paducah), February 15,1862.         (Received February 16, 18...

Fort Donelson, Ten. Feb.y March 1st 1862 Dear Julia. Enclosed I send you seven hundred dollars which with as much as you can spare...

Took on coal at Cairo. Rounded the point and entered the Father of Waters. Had a quiet and pleasant ride. Monotonous country along the leve...