Through the dark and lurid atmosphere of war the light of "Nature's own exceeding peace" still softly falls on the earth. The ...

Esther dead! Gone home two days before I heard or dreamed of it! But since she has gone home, — since it is only a glorious release for her,...

Corinth. We were again disappointed, the train leaving us behind and nothing to do but wait another twenty-four hours. In the afternoon E. W...

I have for some time had as mess-mates Surgeon J—— V—— and his two sons. I find him a most estimable Quaker gentleman, and he is by his cour...

It was with a bounding heart, brimful of gratitude to God, that I stepped on board the Dakota and bade farewell to Haines Bluff on the secon...

Louisville, Ky. Again in Louisville—eleven hundred miles nearer home than one week ago and yet how far. Still, it is joy to feel I am compar...

Was hauled from off the battle-ground in an ambulance wagon at half past two in the morning. for fear of the enemy opening fire on our hospi...

Landed at Milliken's Bend. General Grant's army is here encamped under the immediate command of General Grant, and under him command...

My turn came, but did not last long. I was able to see the others at their worst, and came out of it before the others were able to take muc...

Off the coast of Florida. We must be going to New Orleans as has been reported. I did not believe it at first, as there was a report that Ch...

At daylight Company B was called on deck and made to form in a three-sided square, the open side towards the rail. Poor Haight was then brou...

Yet in the Gulf of Mexico. Company C lost a man last night. Company G has been turned out of their quarters and a hospital made of it. That ...

Daniel Vanvoltenberg died to day from the effects of Typhoid fever SOURCE:  Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society for the ...

Corinth. To-day we were told the sad news of the death of one of our number, John Haskins, who died during the night of chronic diarrhea. We...

Our camp here was made without consulting the Surgeons. It was laid out without order, and the tents are so close together that teams cannot...

10 Oc I called by request of Lieut Ball at his office to answer questions in relation to my physical ability to serve as Officer 3 Oc MH Har...

(From the Richmond Examiner, May 2.) The President and his family have just met with a great affliction in the sudden and violent death of...

The Richmond Examiner of May 2 announces the sudden and violent death of Joseph E. Davis, a lad four years of age, second son of Jefferson ...

JOSEPH E. DAVIS, second son of the rebel leader, aged four years, was killed on the 30th ult., by falling from a portico of the family mansi...

The accident which has brought mourning to the hearthstone of President Davis is sad indeed, and the afflicted family will have the sincere ...