Raining hard all day, and fighting all last night. About 2 o'clock this afternoon about 2,000 prisoners came in, with them Major-General...

Left here this morning and passed through Fredericksburg. Crossed the Rappahannock on pontoon bridges, and got to Belle Plain on the Potomac...

Resumed our march this morning at 6. Got six miles and halted. We pitched our camp here on a hill two miles from Fredericksburg. SOURCE: L...

Showers and sunshine, the first preponderating. Our killed and wounded in Beauregard's battle amount to some 1500. The enemy lost 1000...

April-like day, but no rain; clouds, and sunshine, and warm. About 2 P.M. the Secretary received a dispatch stating that the enemy had app...

WAR DEPARTMENT,                      May 9 , 1864—3.20 p.m. Major-General BUTLER: A bearer of dispatches from General Meade has jus...

Gen. Longstreet writes that it will be well to winter in East Tennessee (Rogersville), unless there should be a pressing necessity for him ...

It is clear and cold. The boat in which my son and the battalion of clerks went down the river yesterday, sunk, from being overloaded, just...

Where Valor Proudly Sleeps: A History of Fredericksburg National Cemetery, 1866–1933 By Donald C. Pfanz Many books discuss in...

Office Of The District Attorney Of The United States, For The Southern District Of NewYork. New-York , May 4th, 1863. Honorable Montgome...

Moved down to the valley near Fredericksburg. Went into town twice and looked at the fortifications and city. It must have been beautiful b...

Birge got in last night with oats. Went out to Regt. Considerable excitement on account of report that Ewell had flanked our army and was a...

During the day went to the regt. Some beef, 16½ cents per pound. Thomas and I went to the front. Arrived there at nearly sundown just as a ...

Near Falmouth , Nov. 22nd, 1862. My dear Mother: We are still overlooking the city of Fredericksburg, which the enemy has not evacuat...

Headquarters Stevens's Div. 9th Army Corps, Fredericksburg , Aug. 19th, 1862. My dearest Mother: Here we are, occupying a fin...

Headquarters Stevens' Div. 9th Army Corps, Steamer “elm City,” Aug. 5th, 1862. My dear Mother: Here we are at length at Acqu...

The enemy have abandoned the vicinity of Fredericksburg, falling back across the river, and probably retiring toward Alexandria, or else th...

Rained last night; raw and cloudy with a little snow this morning. Sun shone in the afternoon. We hear today of the crossing by General Bur...

It appears that the enemy design to attack us. The following is Lee's dispatch: “ culpepper , June 9th, 1863. “ To General S. Coo...

We have news of a fight on the Rappahannock yesterday, above Fredericksburg, the enemy having crossed again. They were driven back. ...