Another night cramped up on the cars; another night of painful nipping at napping amidst the roar, the heat and jogging of the train. Everyb...

At 7 A.M. started for Rebel lines with flag of truce. Colonel McKibbin and Captain Swain. Spent day there. Subject: endeavor to get our woun...

Ambulances went into Rebel lines to get our wounded. SOURCE: Archibald Gracie, The Truth about Chickamauga , p. 386

On Chicamauga’s bloody field,      A wounded soldier lay, Dreaming about his Hoosier Home,      Six hundred miles away. Thro’ thick’...

Meade recrossed the Rapidan last night! This is a greater relief to us than the enemy has any idea of. I hope the campaign is over for the ...

We have an unintelligible dispatch from Gen. Bragg, saying he had, yesterday, a prolonged contest with the enemy for the possession of Look...

After a fine rain all night, it cleared away beautifully this morning, cool, but not unseasonable. There is no news of importance. The Gove...

MacARTHUR, Arthur , soldier, was born in Springfield, Mass., June 1, 1845; son of Judge Arthur MacArthur (q.v.). In 1849 he went with his f...

Gen. Lee writes that he will endeavor to protect the workmen while removing the iron at Aquia Creek, but he fears the work has been too lon...

Camp White , October 10, 1863. Dear Mother : — I have just received your good long letter from Delaware on [of] the 3d. . . . There was...

Gallipolis , September 24, [1863]. Dear Uncle : — Lucy arrived here safely last night. We shall go up the Kanawha tomorrow. I hope ...

P. M. — “Rosecrans [at Chickamauga] has been badly beaten”! Such is the shock the dispatch gives us this evening. After months of success ...

News better. Rosecrans defeated but not badly. Enemy probably suffered too much to take advantage of their victory. SOURCE: Charles Ric...

No authentic information of a battle near Manassas has been received at the War Department, although it is certain there has been some heav...

May 28, 1864, 9 a. m. Still in rifle pits. We have been treated to a terrific storm of shells, spherical case, and solid shot. The batt...

The President, accompanied by two of his aids, set off quietly day before yesterday for the Southwest — to Bragg's army, no doubt, wher...

Gen. Bragg and others recommend Gen. Hood for promotion to a lieutenant-generalcy; but the President says it is impossible, as the number a...

Our 5000 prisoners taken at the battle of Chickamauga have arrived in this city, and it is ascertained that more are on the way hither. Gen...

May 9, 1864. Yesterday we traveled southeast, crossing six or seven ridges, one or two of which were quite high. Taylor's was the h...

All is reported quiet on the Rappahannock, the enemy seeming to be staggered, if not stupefied, by the stunning blows dealt Rosecrans in th...