Rumors are circulating that we are to be ordered away from here. I am glad of it as I like to be kept active. Still this garrison duty is ne...

WE LEAVE PLYMOUTH. On the 8th of December the regiment embarked on the schooner Skirmisher for Newbern, arriving there on the evening of the...

CITY POINT, VA., January 6, 1865 — 5.30 p.m. Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War, Fort Monroe, Va.: I am just in receipt of a let...

Decatur, Ill., September 6, 1863. Girls, fun, etc., have lost their charm, and I've made up my mind to go back to my regiment. Reas...

Lagrange, Tenn., July 1, 1863. Everything moves quietly here. No more alarms or anything else to "bust" the confounded monoto...

Very cold all day; remained with Kingsley until about 11 o'clock a. m. and then went over to the regiment some distance away; found the...

Bird's Point , October 2, '61. Just at noon yesterday orders came to strike tents and in an hour we were under way and have com...

Camp Flat Top Mountain , May 22, 1862. Dearest : — I have written you one or two letters which I suspect fell into the hands of the en...

The [1st] Louisiana was again ordered to garrison Fort Butler. The twenty-eighth Maine having served out its time was discharged. General B...

Washington, D. C. , June 18, 1865. Since my last letter we have made one more change, and the regiment now forms part of the garrison o...

Washington , 28th December, 1862. My Dear Forbes , — Last evening I handed to the President a memorial from clergymen, calling on him t...

Arrived in Donaldsonville at 9 a. m. As soon as the First Louisiana landed they were ordered to build board shanties and garrison the place...

I do not write often now, not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear, and why dwell upon those things? ...

It is clear again and quite pleasant. We were off at 7 a. m. and marched twelve miles. Went into bivouac within a mile of Fayetteville. Our...

It rained all day. We are still on guard at the roundhouse. Troops are on the move, both up and down the river as fast as the transports ca...

Harper's Ferry , July 26, 1861. Reveille roll-call is just finished, and I have a short time before breakfast to improve by writing...

I was on camp guard today. We got our tents and pitched them today, and also, because of the intense heat, built shades in front of them by...

We lay around all day in the camp which the rebels vacated. Their tents are badly torn, but the wooden bunks are in good condition. The wou...

FIFTH COLONEL, SECOND INFANTRY. James B. Weaver was the fifth colonel of the 2d Iowa Infantry. He is a native of the city of Dayton, Ohio, w...