No. 8. Report of Surg. George E. Cooper, U. S. Army, Medical Director, Department of the Cumberland. HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMB...

Field Infirmary, near Petersburg, Va.,           June 24, 1864. When I wrote to you two days ago I said appearances indicated that we were...

Near Petersburg, Va.,           October 25, 1864. I have a bright fire this morning. There is a nice chimney to my tent, which makes it al...

As I entered the long broad avenue running between the great tents at the field hospital later in the day where there were hundreds of woun...

Pleasant and warm; remained at the fort until about 8 o'clock a. m. waiting for General Burnside's forces to relieve us, and then m...

I helped to move the field hospital into town this morning. Most of the wounded able to go, have been sent home on thirty-day furloughs, an...

It is still raining, which makes the third day's rain. My ward was broken up today and the sick boys were transferred to Ward D in hosp...

It is clear and quite warm. The constant shifting of the sick and wounded men makes a great deal of work for the convalescents here. They a...

A train loaded with sick and wounded came in this afternoon from the front. Some of our convalescents had to give up their cots to the sick...

A train loaded with wounded came in last night from Marietta, Georgia, and they were sent out to the field hospital east of town. So...

The same as ever. Am still in the hospital, but getting some better, and I am very thankful, for it is very disagreeable to lie sick in a f...

I was taken with the other sick and the wounded to Rome, to the field hospital of the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Army Corps. We l...

All the sick have been removed to the field hospital in the rear of the army. I was brought here to our division field hospital, near Big S...

Late last night our company detailed for picket duty. Located at the ford, near the town. It was a fearful, dark, rainy night. Every man wa...

A field hospital and camp was established to the north on the Chambersburg road, about two miles from town. A fine location. Plenty of good...

Our brigade returned to the bridge and went into camp, with Colonel Chambers in command of the entire post. Our army field hospital is loca...

We started this morning at daylight and marched five miles to General McPherson's headquarters at the center of the army. Here we lay ...

We are in receipt of a letter some thirteen pages in length from a “Camp near Corinth” correspondent, giving us the details of the brilliant...

The entire Sixth Division, taking up the line of march 2 this morning at 6 o'clock, marched five miles and then formed a line of battl...

Vivid Description of the Battle Field. (Correspondence Cincinnati Commercial.) A Ride to the Battle – The Battle Ground – Scenes on...