WASHINGTON, D.C., September 11, 1862 I am here now two days getting arms for our recruits. All is reported quiet beyond Rockville, and ...

camp Near TennallytowN, Maryland , September 5, 1862. I wrote you a hasty scrawl in my hurried visit to Washington, just to assure you ...

Washington, D. C ., September 3, 1862 After an experience of sixteen days here, I am humiliated, exhausted, yet well and determined. ...

in Bivouac Massanatan Pass, Opposite New Market, May 6, 1862. A word with you in the rough confusion of our mountain bivouac. Sun...

Head-quarters Second Massachusetts Regiment, Camp near Seneca, Nov. 23, 1861, Saturday Evening. Yours of the 19th is in my pocket. Th...

pleasant Hill , October 4, 1861, Camp near Darnestown. I am sitting up to-night, as field-officer of the day, awaiting the hour of tw...

PLEASANT HILL, CAMP NEAR Darnestown , September 27, 1861. A dark, dull, rainy day without, a calm, quiet, cosey tent within. At peac...

pleasant Hill , September 16, 1861. I got a letter from you this morning dated Saturday, and full of regret that I don't get your l...

Headquarters Forty-ninth Regiment, M. V. M. Camp Banks, Baton Rouge, La., March 4, 1863. Dear Mother , — I wrote you last on the 28t...