A most gloomy day in Wall Street. Everything at a deadlock. First-class paper not negotiable; demand for money greater than in October, 1857...

Monmouth, Oct. 17th, 1835. To show you that I am not wasting the prime of life in ignoble ease, I may mention that I am a senator in the L...

Were waked up at daylight & most of the men had made coffee when the Regt. was ordered on board the Gulf Steamer. Genl Banks, Genl Grang...

Soon as breakfast is over sit down to write a letter, not finished before I was detailed to take charge of 40 men & report to Div Head Q...

Revelie at 3. Genl. at 4. column moves at 5. 33d in the rear. co. G. in the wagon train. very warm roads tolerably good. At 2½ P. M. leave t...

The best news for us since the war began has come within a day or two; and it is confirmed. Beaufort, S. C., is taken by a federal fleet, an...

We received the news of the Conscription Act. It passed both Houses and became a law. It receives the general approval of the soldiers. Peat...

We had a lively time last night. A storm of rain and wind began about 10 o'clock in the evening and kept up until about 12, when the win...

Near Oxford.  Warm and pleasant.  Health excellent. Dr. Miller returned  from Wisconsin in the  afternoon, much to the satisfaction of all. ...

Oxford. Reveille earlier than usual; orders to hold in readiness to march, such orders being anticipated. 7 A. M. the whole Division took up...

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...