[Alexandria, Virginia, October 11, 1861] I have been very fortunate in securing control of my brigade. One day last week eighteen officers...

GENERAL ORDERS No. 7.} HDQRS. DISTRICT OF VICKSBURG,           Vicksburg, Miss., May 18, 1864. The attention of the officers of this comma...

CAMP SHERIDAN'S ARMY NEAR HALLTOWN, VIRGINIA,  August 27, 1864.  DEAR UNCLE:— I am getting letters at last; heard nothing from anybody f...

[Pensacola, Florida, March 11, 1861.] My dear Wife: We left New Orleans on Friday. Saturday night at 12 o'clock we reached here, after a...

SEMINARY OF LEARNING, Jan. 30, 1860. SIR: A case has this day arisen requiring my prompt action under the paragraph of regulations quoted be...

SAINT LOUIS, March 13 , 1862 . Maj. Gen. U.S. GRANT, Fort Henry: You cannot be relieved from your command. There is no good reason f...

Dear ———: I followed the regiment through the streets, and tried hard at the Depot to find you and ——— at the cars last evening to shake ha...

Near Falmouth , Nov. 22nd, 1862. My dear Mother: We are still overlooking the city of Fredericksburg, which the enemy has not evacuat...

A long hiatus! The nights have been too busy for jottings. . . . . We went over to Seward’s, found him comfortably slippered, and af...

camp Near Seneca , November 10, 1861, Sunday Evening. I have had a quiet Sunday. Colonel Gordon's sudden resolution to snatch a v...

pleasant Hill , October 4, 1861, Camp near Darnestown. I am sitting up to-night, as field-officer of the day, awaiting the hour of tw...

pleasant Hill , September 10, 1861, Camp near Darnestown. I have had a day or two of horizontal contemplation, enforced by my leg, bu...

Major Miner arrived at three A. M. Major Purington left early to report under arrest at Fort Scott. Miner commenced a rigid discipline and ...

Washington, Aug. 4, P. M. With what you say about Negro Organization west of the Mississippi I entirely agree; it is a more aggressive...

Maryland Heights , August 3, 1861, in Bivouac. Our new leafy camp presents an odd appearance. Two or three ingenious men belonging to t...

Cp. E. Of Capitol , May 23, 1863. We have no intimation yet of our probable destination — I am getting daily more and more indifferent ...

CIRCULAR.] HDQRS. ARMIES OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES, February 22 , 1865 . The spirit which animates our soldiers, and the natural cou...

GENERAL ORDERS No. 4. HEADQUARTERS ARMIES OF THE C. S., February 22 , 1865 . I. The experience of our own and other armies having...

CAMP PIERPONT, VA., November 7, 1861. I ought to have written to you before, but I have been very busy, having been put on a court-mart...

Our Camps of instruction are alive with soldiers. The alacrity with which our people have rallied to the call of the Governor, is beyond al...