VIRGINIA GIRLS OF SWEET SIXTEEN DID NOT LOVE US. Weather hot; two more trains of Rebel wounded pass. Report that General Wadsworth and oth...

The boys came out this morning, looking a little the worse for wear, lame, sore and stiff; but with a good bumper of whiskey to lubricate t...

This morning we still occupy the position gained last evening. There is no firing this morning. Why this quiet? Why this stillness? The enem...

Map of Vicksburg showing the river front and the positions of the Union and Confederate lines in the rear. When I awoke this morning I ...

We have no news of any importance from any of the armies. Gen. Bragg, however, telegraphs, August 31st, that he is concentrating his forces...

The men taken outside yesterday are under rebel guard and will be punished. The men are thoroughly aroused, and now that the matter has bee...

When I awoke this morning and, gazing out of my little window on the regiments parading on the level below me, after an arduous struggle to...

Near Point Pleasant, Mo ., March 18, '62. You see we are creeping along down the river surely if the motions are a little slow. Thi...

Near New Madrid, Mo. , March 6, 1862. What oceans of fun we are having here. Here goes for all of it to date, and I'll be lucky if ...

HEADQUARTERS PROVISIONAL ARMY, C. S. A. , Charleston, S.C., April 16 , 1861 . SIR : I have the honor to submit the following summary...

Cairo. I am converted to the belief that Cairo is not such a bad place after all. The record shows that less deaths have occurred here in s...

Revelie at 3. A. M. At 5 Brigade falls in & starts to the landing. are ordered back to camp to await for more boats, at 8 A. M. ordered...

Rained very hard during the night, hearing that during the night a boat had come in Luiet Laughridge & I go to the landing. find no boa...

No officers over from Libby for a few days past. Nearly all the clothing issued. A few days more will close up the clothing business, and t...

Still prisoners of war, without the remotest idea as to how long we are to remain so. Some of the paroled Yankees on the outside curse and ...

No marching orders yet this morning & as our teams had all been called for during the night & sent back to the landing for supplies...

For a fortnight I have been ill and really unfit for duty, yet have been absent from the Department but a single day, the only day I have ...

Had a letter from Chief Engineer Stimers last night. Says the attack on Charleston will be delayed; suggests it will be made the first week...

After breakfast — poor beef — went into town. Advance with secesh flag and a dozen rushed to it and showed passes from Raines and McDonald ...

Going into Nicolay’s room this morning, Carl Schurz and Jim Lane were sitting. Jim was at the window, filling his soul with gall by steady ...