What a wonderful effect the hardships of camp life, with the troubles and cares which they entail on a surgeon, have had on my health. For m...

Stanton informed me this P.M. that Halleck had gone from Richmond to Fortress Monroe and he wished certain persons, whom he named, should be...

To the Hon. Secretary of War : I find it unnecessary to bring the troops from Fort Monroe here, and have stopped them at Fort McHenry to a...

CITY POINT, August 16 , 1864 — 1 . 30 p.m.                (Received 6 . 30 a.m. 17 th.) Major-General SHERIDAN, Commanding, &c...

DRAFT. Dept. of Annapolis, May 1st, 1861 Major General PATTERSON SIR: You will find enclosed an open letter from General Scott. ...

Sunday morning in Baltimore, and a stiller or more quiet place I never saw. No sounds are heard, no people or carriages are seen in the str...

Headquarters of the Army, WASHINGTON, April 29th, 1861 Brig. Gen. BUTLER SIR: I was happy to receive Col. Butler last night, the bear...

Headquarters of the Army, WASHINGTON, April 29th, 1861 Maj. Gen. PATTERSON SIR: I wrote to you by Major Porter on the 27th, and also ...

. . . . The whining traitors from Baltimore were here again this morning. The President, I think, has done with them. In conversation with ...

Colonel Washington called this morning but could not see the President. It would seem like a happy chance to have a General Washington ...

The reveille of the Zouaves, note for note the same as that which, in the Crimea, so often woke up poor fellows who slept the long sleep er...

Head quarters, Middle Department, Baltimore, Md., June 1,1862. General Orders, No. 14: The Major-general commanding, having received ...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA, Baltimore, Md., September 5 , 1861 . Maj. Gen. G. B. MCCLELLAN, Commanding Army of the Potom...

Marching orders received. Our last day and night at Fort McHenry. Great rejoicing over the prospect of leaving the old place. Packing up an...

I was detailed with twenty members of our company under the command of Lieutenant Merwin to take boats and to row to a long bridge over a b...

The fort was historic ground. The flag flying over it caused Mr. Key to write the song “The Star-spangled Banner,” in 1814. Many British sh...

After a short drill by officers of the 48th Regiment, I was detailed for guard duty. A large number of Confederate prisoners were confined ...

It was after eight o'clock last night before the train got under way. At midnight we passed through Harrisburg, Penn. The night very da...

WASHINGTON CITY, D.C., June 1 , 1862 – 9 . 30 . Major-General McCLELLAN: You are probably engaged with the enemy. I suppose he mad...

BALTIMORE, May 28 – Last Saturday the deputy Provost Marshal, by order of General Dix commanding this Department proceeded to Easton, Talbot...