BEAUFORT, S. C. November 24. Today our companies E and K have proved themselves worthy, in a skirmish over the river, of all the praises t...

March 13, Evening. The night was not a very quiet one for our sentinels at the barricades, firing enough to keep all on the qui vive , tho...

My thirty-seventh birthday yesterday. Never thought I would spend it in South Carolina, on a plantation too, and there by right as occupan...

Another adventure, and a red hot one. Started down the river in our dug-out boat somewhere near midnight. Ran down all right for an hour, f...

Organizing the militia; hauling artillery past the prison Have a good view of all that is going on. Bought a compass from one of the guards...

Col. Fisk seized the freight house at the depot. It was about 200 feet long and was stowed just as full of hard bread as it could be packed...

Cantonment Hicks , February 2, 1862. A Sunday-morning inspection of your letter, received last evening, prompts me to answer; though it...