New prisoners report favorable progress by our armies. Yesterday there was a powerful rain lasting ten hours. In this part the soil is red a...

I left Rusk on the morning of the 16th on a six passenger coach; there were  fourteen  aboard; the driver was skillful and the road good; I ...

Four days I have been ill. Among new men bloody flux and dysentery prevail; this is my trouble. I am better today; a fine breeze lifts me. F...

The Fifteenth Indiana, Colonel Wagner, moved up the valley eight miles. The sickly months are now on us. Considerable dysentery among the ...

It is now between two and three months since our regiment went into camp. We have had nearly three hundred cases of measles, with about as m...

March 18. This morning a message came in by flag of truce from Camp Finnegan, giving us 24 hours to send out the women and children to the...

Moved camp into the woods to the left of the old camp in the open field. Major Nettleton attacked with dysentery. Letter last night from Ge...

79th Regiment, Camp Israel,                        Pleasant Valley,         Oct. 19th, 1862. My dear Mother: It is some little ti...

Libby Prison Hospital , September 11, 1864. Dear Mother , — I write this to send by some officer who goes by this flag of truce boat. I...

Prisoners' Hospital, Danville, Va ., August 20, 1864. My Dear Mother , — I have been very ill with dysentery, consequent on the e...

CAMP ON WOLF RIVER, NEAR MEMPHIS, Dec. 14, 1862. The papers, I suppose, have told you what we have been about. My regiment was the firs...

HEADQUARTERS 54TH REGT. O. V. INF., CAMP NEAR MOSCOW, TENN., Sunday, June 29,1862. My last letter to you was dated from Lagrange yest...