Washington 22d May 1848 MY DEAR JAMES, I am happy to have your approval of my remarks in reference to the French Revolution. I see they ha...

Up to date they are firing at Fort Hill and Washington all the time. SOURCE: Louis Leon,  Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier , p. 23

The boys of the 20th left at Vicksburg joined our regiment to-day. We were very anxious to hear how the siege was progressing, and, to our s...

Johnston is getting lively again, and beginning to kick up a dust in the rear; so we have orders to move tonight, with three days' cooke...

Our regiment went into the rifle-pits again before daylight, at which time the din of musketry and cannonading from both sides had begun, an...

Digging a mine under Fort Hill, with a cotton car as protection from the enemy's bullets. To-day our regiment was at the front. The...

We move at last. We left camp as the sun rose, reaching our old quarters in front of the rebel Fort Hill in the afternoon. Glad we are to g...

This day beholds a cordon of steel, with rivets of brave hearts, surrounding Vicksburg. The enemy left their fortifications on the first, t...

Mortar from the river in front. “During the siege of Vicksburg,  sixteen thousand shells were thrown from the mortar gunboats, and nav...

SECOND COLONEL, TENTH INFANTRY. William E. Small, the successor of Nicholas Perczel to the colonelcy of the 10th Iowa Infantry, is a native ...