Near Gordon, November 23, 1864. Came here to-day, about eight miles, find the Army of the Tennessee all here. Have heard nothing of the...

Stone River, S. C, Wednesday, April 8, 1863. MY DEAB NICO: I arrived here to-night at the General's headquarters and was very p...

Camp Near Culpeper, Virginia , August 17, 1862, Sunday. The battle of Cedar Mountain, or, correctly, Slaughter's Mountain, or, in...

Camp Near Culpeper, Virginia , August 15, 1862. I have fallen into camp life and its spirit quite easily. It is the virtue of duty in t...

Winchester, Virginia , Friday, May 30, 1862, Braddock Street, at Mr. Bernhardt's. The first news of an attack on Banks's colu...

HEADQUARTERS THIRD BRIGADE, Camp near Williamsport, Md. [May 28, 1862.] CAPTAIN: Agreeably to instructions received from headquarte...

Marien Villa, V ö slau, September 8, 1862. My Dearest Mother : I wish it were possible for me to say anything that would interest you...

Camp Between New Market And Sparta , Thursday, April 24, 1862. When I awoke on Easter morning in my dripping bivouac, and looked gloo...

camp Near Edinburg , April 6, 1862. It might be a June morning, by its sunshine and warmth. This broken valley, the “interval” of two s...

camp Near Winchester , March 15, 1862. Of all the platitudes and jingles that ever amused and deluded a chivalrous people, the asserti...

Charlestown, Virginia , March 8, 1862, Saturday. We are quite at home in Charlestown now. We went into camp on Wednesday. On Thursday I...