In camp near Frederick. Gen. Meade took command of the army to-day. SOURCE: John Lord Parker,  Henry Wilson's Regiment: History of the...

Hot, showery day, renders the condition of the sick more appalling. It is believed that more than two-thirds of the 700 men at the gate in r...

Three Roads to Gettysburg: Meade, Lee, Lincoln, and theBattle That Changed the War, the Speech That Changed the Nation By Tim McGrath Re...

The Fifth Corps was reviewed by Major-Gens. Meade and Butterfield. SOURCE: John Lord Parker,  Henry Wilson's Regiment: History of the ...

Haines Bluff, Miss.   We arrived at our old camp yesterday—twenty days from the time we left it—the toughest twenty days of our experience. ...

Bryson telegraphed yesterday that he had captured seven hundred Fenians crossing the river at Black Rock. I sent the telegram to the Preside...

CIRCULAR.] HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,           Taneytown, July 1 , 1863 . From information received, the commanding general is sat...

HEADQUARTERS TWELFTH CORPS,                     ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND,           TULLAHOMA, TENN., January 2d, 1864. MY DEAR SIR: I presu...

HDQRS. TWELFTH CORPS, ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND,           Tullahoma, Tenn., December 30, 1863. Maj. Gen. GEORGE G. MEADE,           Commandin...

Seward read the dispatches which he proposed to send to Mr. Motley,—the first, protesting against the sending of troops to Mexico by the Aus...

Morning at Stevensburg, Va.—Taking a southwest direction we passed northeast of Stony Mountain and came in conjunction with other marching c...

HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSOURI,           ST. LOUIS, Mo., Dec. 20, 1868. Dear Brother: *           *           *          ...

Camp near Orange Court House, Va . , August 10, 1863. All is quiet here now. When two armies have a great battle both sides are so cripple...

Camp near Orange Court House, Va., September 27, 1863. We had nine more military executions in our division yesterday—one man from Thomas...

Camp near Rappahannock River, Culpeper County, Va., October 20, 1863. This is the first chance I have had to write to you since we started o...

VICKSBURG, MISS., July 11, 1863.           Maj. Gen. WILLIAM T. SHERMAN, Comdg. Expedition: DEAR GENERAL: Dispatches just received from Gen...

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...

Bright, pleasant day. The city is full of generals—Lee and his son (the one just returned from captivity), Longstreet, Whiting, Wise, Hoke, ...

A slight snow on the ground this morning—but bright and cool. Last night, after I had retired to bed, we heard a brisk cannonading, and voll...

Bright and pleasant. Intelligence from the West is of an interesting character. The column of Federal cavalry from Memphis, destined to co-o...