Rainey with mud beyond description I have been boxing up some cotton seed &c to send home Rev Oliver Williams called & spent the aft...

The place is in a buisey mood Genl Fisks Bregade is buisey preparing to go on board the fleet tomorrow for some place south of this we think...

Fort Hill 11th April 1847 MY DEAR SIR, . . . The spring has been very backward; but the weather has been warm and dry since the commenceme...

Fort Hill 10th June 1847 MY DEAR ANNA, If I have not written you more frequently, it is because Cornelia and your Mother write you constan...

This has certainly been one of the most exciting days I have spent in the service. We crossed the river on a transport to the Louisana shore...

A scout went out and burned a lot  of  cotton in order to prevent the Federals from getting it. SOURCE: Richard R. Hancock,  Hancock's...

Lincoln elected. Hooray. Everybody seems glad of it. Even Democrats like Isaac Bell say there will be no disturbance, and that this will qui...

FORT MOULTRIE, S.C., Jan. 4, 1846. My Dear  Brother : I had to go to North Carolina on a wedding tour at Christmas time, and as soon as I...

Yesterday morning, Mr. F., a gentleman from my native State, Massachusetts, and who has charge of the Refugee Farm, asked if I would not lik...

On guard. Stood picket in a large cotton field which contains five or six hundred acres of cotton, unpicked. I went back to the cane brake a...

PHILADELPHIA, [PA.],  February  23d, 1857. ESTEEMED FRIEND: Permit me to remind you, that four years since, at your request, the Senate am...

Received orders to move tomorrow. Our camp life at Smith's Plantation has been as pleasant as we could wish. Our time was spent in batal...

Boat landed at 12. O clock last night at Scippers landing to unload freight was up saw several hundred bales of cotton guarded by a gunboat....

Went into camp, and a hard place it is; wood scarce and "water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink," except the Mississippi ...

The news came in this morning that Holly Springs was entered at daylight and captured. The Rebels took over two hundred thousand dollars and...

The long roll was beaten at 3 o'clock this morning. The company was formed and we marched down to our cotton fort where we lay until day...

Gen. Grant passed through here this morning on the train. The division of Denver's, (ex-governor of Kansas, for whom Denver City was nam...

On picket guard today. Got my boots half soled. Gen. McPherson passed through here, and Logan's division is coming up and passing throug...

Senate Chamber 23d Feb. 1848 MY DEAR ANDREW, The treaty with Mexico has just been laid before the Senate, and read. It will be warmly oppo...

While I was looking out of the window this morning at some recruits for the 48th Indiana, whom should I see but John Metternich of our old c...