Cairo, Ill., June 10th, 1863. We are now three hundred and sixty-six miles from Lebanon, which place we left at 3 p. m. of Sunday, and rea...

Left the picket line again, returned to Camp Jackson, started for Darnestown by six o'clock, and arrived there by eight o'clock P. M...

Six companies of the Seventh, and six companies of the Fiftieth Illinois Infantry, under the command of Colonel Rowett, leave Rome on a scou...

Cold rain; rained all night. Gen. Lee, urging that his regiments from Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, etc. etc. be recruited from ...

LANCASTER, OHIO, August 12, 1860. DEAR GENERAL: I left Alexandria in the stage on Tuesday morning, reached the wharf boat [at the mouth of...

HOSPITAL LIFE. Thus far I have been unable to discover any charms in hospital life. With fair health the active camp is far preferable. Th...

[ w ]e are busily engaged cleaning off our camp ground; we have no water here; are compelled to haul it from a distance. To-day we send six ...

Bright and warm—really a fine spring day. It is the day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer, and all the offices are closed. May God put it ...

A STRANGER. Work is still going on, getting the boats off and getting them across the bar. The Eastern Queen is afloat and will be with ...

July 19, 1862. I don't know whether I have any business sending such a document as I enclose, but guess its no difference. Two spie...

Rienzi, Tishomingo Co., Miss., June 14, '62. We have located for a somewhat permanent stay, as the clumsy order said, in the most b...

To-morrow we remove to new quarters. The lady's husband, owning cottage, and who was confined for seven months among lunatics, has retu...

Beaufort, S. C . May 2d, 1862. My dear Mother: May has opened charmingly in Beaufort. The air is warm but not oppressive. We are luxu...

The ambulances are coming in with our wounded. They report that all the enemy's strong defenses were stormed, just as we could perceive...