April 4. Tomorrow I hear we are to pull up stakes and go on picket duty. This is not easy work, but work of any kind is preferable to inac...

To-night the President went to Seward's, I with him. At the door a telegram was handed him from McClellan stating that the enemy was be...

To-night I went over to McClellan’s quarters with the Tycoon and Seward. Lander was with us part of the way. Lander was gasconading a littl...

Snow two or three inches deep on top of the mud. Dr. Webb and Adjutant Avery started for Raleigh in the storm, or rather on the snow and mu...

Headquarters Co. B, Berryville Tollhouse, Charlestown, Va ., March 5, 1862. You see by my elaborate heading that we have not moved si...

Camp Benton, Saturday Night, October 25, 1861. My Dear Mother , — . . . . I have not had time or heart to write you, who had such goo...

Headquarters Twentieth Regiment Mass. Volunteers, Camp Benton, Edwards' Ferry, Md. September 24, 1861. Dear Mother :— Septemb...

September 18, 1861. I had the pleasantest time, yesterday, that I have had this long while. General Lander's Brigade, including the...

I have let one of my men copy this out of my journal, which I wrote after we got here Sunday night. Part of it was a letter to Ben. I am we...

Monday, December 16, 1861. MY DEAR WIFE,   . . . Keeping down my sorrow   at heart for the woes of our poor country, which under   inc...

CAMP NEAR ALEXANDRIA, March 18, 1862. I note all you write about McClellan. I fear it is all true, and that the most desperate efforts ...

FREDERICK, Md., Jan 23. – Officers from Hancock yesterday report the Potomac as having risen nearly twenty five feet within the past few day...

EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, March 8 , 1862 . Ordered, 1. That the major-general commanding the Army of the Potomac proceed forthw...

WASHINGTON, March 2. – A dispatch was received to-day from Com. Foot saying that Lieut. Phelps, sent with a flag of truce to Columbus, has...

WASHINGTON, March 2. – It is now said to be clearly understood between the allied powers that a monarchy will be the result of the present...

The brave and chivalric Gen. Lander is no more.   Last evening the melancholy tidings reached us that he died during the afternoon at Paw ...

Gen. Lander is regarded as rather overbearing, strict in discipline, and severe to the last routine of military rule; but he is known to b...

We feel bound to express our regret at the injudicious and extraordinary zeal of our commanders.   General Lander, for instance, has recentl...

A Washington correspondent of the New York World answers the questions, “Have the Northern army and Northern supremacy benefited or injured ...