HEADQUARTERS 25TH WISCONSIN VOLUNTEER INFANTRY,           Snyder's Bluff, Miss., July 1, 1863. SIR: In compliance with orders dated Head...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, New Orleans, May 25 , 1862 . Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War: SIR : In matters pertai...

Tuscumbia, Ala., August 8, 1862. My pet negro got so lazy and worthless I was compelled to ship him. I'll take back, if you please,...

Camp Northwest Of Brookville, Maryland, September 10, 1862. Dearest : — We are now about twenty-five or thirty miles northwest of Was...

Great news this morning. A raid is being made on Richmond by Kilpatrick, Rebels manning their forts in sight of us. All are at work, women,...

Beaufort, S. C., April 10th, 1862. My dear Mother: I was glad to get your photograph, as it does not look, as did the other one you ...

One of the President's Aids, Mr. Johnston, has asked the Secretary's permission for Mrs E. B. Hoge, Mrs. M. Anderson, Miss Judith V...

Fredericksburg not shelled yet; but the women and children are flying hither. The enemy fired on a train of women and children yesterday, s...

The cars which came in from the North last night brought a great many women, children, and negroes from Fredericksburg and its vicinity. Th...

Raleigh, Virginia , March 24, 1862. Dear Uncle : — Your letter of the 14th came to hand the day before yesterday. We all feel pleased t...

The ambulances are coming in with our wounded. They report that all the enemy's strong defenses were stormed, just as we could perceive...

Amid all the turbulent scenes which surround us, our only grandchild has first seen the light, and the dear little fellow looks as quiet as...

Camp, near Fredericksburg , Nov. 23rd, 1862. . . . We reached here on yesterday afternoon, having left Culpeper on Wednesday about twel...

Beaufort, S.C. , April 17, 1862. At Mrs. John Forbes', 1 formerly Mr. Tripp's house,— a modern built new building with expensi...

Poor Fredericksburg! The enemy on the Stafford side of the river in force; their cannon planted on the hills. Day before yesterday they dem...

Wet, cold, windy; sleet last night. Five companies of the Thirtieth came up last night. Little or no preparations to shelter them — all the...

I must describe an adventure I had in Kingsville. Of course, I know nothing of children: in point of fact, am awfully afraid of them. M...

We surely “dwell in the midst of alarms.” We were roused from our beds this morning at five o'clock by an order for the impressment of ...

At McMahan's our small colonel, Paul Hayne's son, came into my room. To amuse the child I gave him a photograph album to look over....

We heard very heavy firing all day yesterday, and again to-day. At one time the roar was so continuous that I almost fancied I heard the sh...