Last Wednesday we moved from our encampment at Mound Bluff Church, and after two days' marching, came to this place, and we are now enca...

Enslaved at the Cumberland Iron Furnace in Dickson County, Tennessee, Thomas Driver had a wife and four children. In 1840, 100 slaves—mostly...

It has been snowing, and is very cold. Some of the boys have formed a dramatic company, and I went to see them play "Toodles." The...

Raining-rained all night. The dark and dismal weather, together with our sad reverses, have made the countenances of croakers in the streets...

HEADQUARTERS FIRST ARMY CORPS,           November 14 , 1864 . Lieut. Col. W. H. TAYLOR,           Assistant Adjutant-General, Army of Northe...

To-day there was a man shot for desertion. Eight balls passed through him. The way this is conducted is the brigade that he belongs to, or s...

Camp near Rappahannock River, Va . , March 5, 1863. Edwin, Jim Allen and Ben Strother took dinner with me yesterday, and I think I gave ...

HEADQUARTERS,           Knoxville, November 20 , 1861 . SIR: The rebellion in East Tennessee has been put down in some of the counties, a...

We had a man whipped to-day in our regiment for desertion. SOURCE: Louis Leon,  Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier , p. 20

GENERAL ORDERS, No. 38. HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE OHIO,           Cincinnati, Ohio, April 13, 1863. The commanding general publishes, for th...

CITY POINT, August 16 , 1864 — 1 . 30 p.m.                (Received 6 . 30 a.m. 17 th.) Major-General SHERIDAN, Commanding, &c...

Marienberg, Boppart , Sept. 7, '50. My Dear Sumner : — Here I am at last where I ought to have been two months ago. This is a most ...

Our best scout, Corporal Jacobs, and Private Fenchard, Company F, were murdered last night at Morris' mill on Gauley River, twelve mile...

South Boston , May 25th, 1849. Hanging Day!              My Dear Mann : — If I thought that keeping away from you awhile would bring ...

I suppose we must be moved again, from all reports. Savannah is threatened by Union troops, and we are to be sent to Millen, Ga. Am sorry, ...

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the U...

Resolved by the Congress of the Confederate States of America in response to message of the President transmitted to Congress at the commen...

This morning lumber was brought into the prison by the rebels, and near the gate a gallows erected for the purpose of executing the six con...

Oh, how hot, and oh, how miserable. The news that six have been sentenced to be hanged is true, and one of them is Moseby. The camp is thor...

The court for gotten, up by our own men and from our own men; Judge, jury, counsel, &c. Had a fair trial, and were even defended, but t...