NEW CREEK, (WEST) VIRGINIA, April 8, 1865. DEAREST:— The glorious news is coming so fast that I hardly know how to think and feel about it. ...

NEW CREEK, (WEST) VIRGINIA, April 9 (Sunday), 1865. DEAR MOTHER:— The good news is coming so fast and so much of it that I hardly know how...

CUMBERLAND, MARYLAND, April 10, 1865. DEAR JUDGE:— I am told that my application for leave has come back without approval. I am sending it...

NEW CREEK, WEST VIRGINIA, April 12, 1865. DEAREST:— I wonder if you feel as happy as I do. The close of the war, “home again,” darling and...

Raleigh, April 19, 1865. Joe Johnston surrendered the whole thing yesterday to Sherman. Our 4th division and a division of the 17th Corps ...

Sunday, April 30, 1865. Howardism (and it is a very good kind of ism), allows us to lay still to-day. It is a real Canton 1st of June Sabb...

Near Davis' Cross Roads, five miles north of Tar river. May 1, 1865, 4:30 p. m. We are 35 miles from Raleigh to-night, which makes 24 ...

Federal papers now admit that Gen. Banks has been disastrously beaten in Louisiana. They also admit their calamity at Plymouth, N. C. Thus i...

The speeches of Jeff Davis betoken the close of the War. The rebellion is becoming exhausted, and I hope ere many months will be entirely su...

June, 1865. Gerrit Smith , Esq., New York: Dear Sir, — The events which, with increasing emphasis are inscribing our national history...

Cleared up the snow from the ground in the morning. Boys came in from picket. How bright the war prospect looks. Hope to see home by July 4...

Today I explained to the Twenty-third Order Number 191 respecting the re-enlistment of veteran volunteers. I told them I would not urge the...

Camp White , July 28, 1863. Dear Uncle : — . . . We are again in our old camp. We have lost some valuable officers and men since we lef...

A rebel physician (not a regular one), told me that it looked very dark for the Confederacy just now; that we need have no fears but we wou...

Coming cool weather and it braces me right up. Sailors are going away to be exchanged. Ate some sweet potato to-day, and it beats everythin...

Yes, I am better, but poor and weak. Feeling hungry more now, and can take nourishment quite often. Mike Hoare calls to see me. He is think...

Camp White , April 9, 8863. Dear Uncle : — Yours of the 3rd received. Yes, Jenkins made a dash into Point Pleasant, but he dashed out b...

Kept close to quarters all day except a short visit to the commissary for some candles. At 11 A. M. the Gunboat Octorara returns bringing 4...

Still rain! — Read Bulwer's “Strange Story.” One idea I get: “We have an instinctive longing for a future existence”; ergo, there is a ...

There was very little cannonading and skirmishing today. We drew two days' rations with orders to be ready to march at a moment's w...