CAMP RUSSELL, December 17, 1864. MY DARLING: — No certainty about things yet. We fired fifty guns yesterday and one hundred more today ove...

This is Camp Tiffin. Our regiment was favored to-day with a large mail, and nothing could have been more acceptable. Letters from home were ...

At present there is a stream of emigrants to Canada of all persons who have left the country for its good.   They are of three classes—runa...

December 8. Started P. M. for Gauley (a campaign to Lewisburg). Avery, Mather, McKinley, Dr. Webb; one hundred men under Captain Warren of ...

Passed through Cincinnati before daylight. Left for Columbus at 7:30. Stopped opposite Camp Chase and walked over. Got supper at boarding h...

A cold, bitterly cold, night but a bright, fine day. Major McIlrath and Dr. Webb left for Ohio today. Major under orders from General Ewing...

Day passed very quietly, like others. Soon Camp Chase will be very pleasant, as soon as the sun comes out and dries up the mud. More orders...

Columbus, Ohio. Went up to Melissa's after breakfast in the rain. N. there. Stayed to dinner. About 2 started out with N. in a drizzle ...

In Camp Chase. Charlie went home and D. R. H. returned to camp. Saw D. R. and John Devlin. Brought a note and stick of candy from home. ...

I set the men to drilling in the new target practice. Rode with Bottsford over to see Mrs. Lilley, an old lady whose husband, James Lilley,...

Camp Green Meadows , July 29, 1862. Dear Mother : — I received a letter from you dated the 17th July — one from William dated 22d July,...

24th, A. M. — A year ago tonight you and I walked about Camp Chase looking at the men cooking their rations to be ready to leave the next m...

Camp On Flat Top, Virginia , June 12, 1862. Dearest : — I began a letter to you yesterday intending to finish it after the mail came in...

Raleigh , March 30, 1862. Sunday night. Dearest : — I received your good letters tonight. I will recollect Will De Charmes and do what ...

Rained heavily last night, nearly all night; cloudy this morning. Received permission for twenty-one days to go home, from headquarters, se...

March 17, 1864. To the Managers Of the Fremont Campaign Club : Gentlemen, — In reply to your favor of yesterday, informing me that ...

At breakfast this morning, I proposed to Katie to ride over to the Insane Asylum and see Genl. Hooker, to which she agreed; and she having ...

Bannister at Breakfast. Went to Department, and from Department with Deputation of Friends from Mt. Pleasant, O., and Wilmington, Del., to ...

Major Comly calls his camp at Raleigh “Camp Hayes.” It rained last night as if bent to make up for the long drouth. Foggy this morning; war...

Camp Ewing, Mountain Cove, Six Miles Above Gauley Bridge , Wednesday, October 9, 1861. Dearest : — Captain Zimmerman and I have just ...