Christmas. A fine day, and, being my birthday, I was allowed a furlough, for chum and self, from reveille till tattoo. We started as early...

Christmas. Our officers presented the company with a barrel of beer. SOURCE: Theodore Reichardt,  Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode...

We went to bed late last night, but had to get up at the regular time this morning. It was hard work after having had a holiday to strike in...

LUMPKINS MILLS, MISS. Passed the day in camp as Ross's division were passing on their way to Holly Springs. Weather beautiful. It made...

In camp eight miles from Oxford. We cannot move our camps but a few miles distance from the railroad, as all our subsistence depends on our ...

This morning just after being relieved the Yanks made a break on us. We were fired on just as we reached the Com., fought them all day, fall...

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

WINCHESTER, [Va.], December 24, 1851. MY DEAR SIR: I thank you for putting Mr. Guyer in the trail of the facts I enquired for. Have you ...

WASHINGTON, December 19, 1866. DEAR UNCLE:— We have decided to accept an invitation to spend Christmas in New Orleans. It is probable we s...

NASHVILLE, December 24, 1866. DEAR UNCLE:— Good times, banquets, etc., etc., at Knoxville, Chattanooga, and here. We visit the battle-fiel...

No. 250. Report of Col. Charles H. Olmstead, First Volunteer Georgia Infantry, commanding Smith's brigade, of operations December 6, 186...

Camp near Fredericksburg, Va.,           December 24, 1862. The Yankees seem loath to make another advance since the good whipping we gave...

Camp on Rappahannock River,                     Spottsylvania County, Va.,           December 28, 1862. The weather during Christmas has b...

Christmas. Fahrenheit stood this morning eighteen degrees below freezing point. A rare degree of cold in England, exceeding any we have felt...

TYRONE, Friday Night, Jan. 4, 1861. DEAR COLONEL: Your Christmas letter came duly to hand, and I beg to make you my acknowledgements for i...

SEMINARY, Christmas, 1860. DEAR GENERAL: They [the cartridges] are a most appropriate present, and I hope they may all be used for holiday...

No. 229. Report of Col. William J. Palmer, Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, of operations December 20, 1864-January 6, 1865. HDQRS. FIFTEENTH...

There is nothing new up to to-day, Christmas. We moved our camp a little piece. Eigenbrun came to see us to-day from home, and brought me a ...

NED CARTER THE BLACKSMITH. When I first came here I was pretty well used up, but thanks to my friends, Garland of company C and Wheelock a...

A pleasant and “merry Christmas.” A good dinner. Captain Nye, Lieutenants Turner and Stanley, Dr. Webb, Majors Carey, Twenty-third, and McKo...