Wolcott Gibbs called by appointment tonight. We microscopized energetically, and the performances terminated with a very modest supper of ch...

As a description of the appearance of the country in which we were settled, I here introduce a letter written at this date to a friend: CA...

“We hold traitors responsible for the work upon which they have precipitated us, and we warn them that they must abide the full penalty. Esp...

(Waiting at the depot). Going as usual to the department this morning, I found orders had been issued for our immediate removal to Richmond....

RICHMOND, VA., April 23, 1850. MY DEAREST LYDIA—We reached here last evening at half past four. The reception was one of the most imposing...

CAMP NEAR CHARLESTOWN SIX MILES (OR FOUR) FROM  HARPERS FERRY, August 23, 1864.  DEAREST:— For the first time since I saw you I received let...

SHENANDOAH VALLEY, NEAR STRASBURG,  August 14 (Sunday), 1864.  DEAREST:—You see we are again up the Valley following Generals Early and Brec...

Seminary, Alexandria, La ., Dec. 16,1859. . . . I wrote you and Minnie from New Orleans as I told you I would. I did start back in the ...

Saw Col. P. Train moved on to Newtown and camped. Regt. ordered to the cavalry corp. Made preparations to remain with the Regt. — Thede, Ha...

I started for Grant's headquarters. We left the Navy Yard at two o'clock in the afternoon. The party consisted of Fox, Dyer, Wise, ...

An active campaign has begun everywhere. Kilpatrick still threatens us. Bragg has organized his fifteen hundred of cavalry to protect Richm...

Camp South Of Strasburg , March 28, 1862. You must be expecting, by this time, to hear some account of what we have been up to for thes...

March 10, 1865 What think you we did yesterday? We had a “Matinee Musicale,” at the Chapel of the 50th New York Engineers. Nothing but...