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...

camp Near Harrisonburg , April 26, 1862, Saturday. Rain! rain! rain! March! march! march! What a life! We marched fifteen miles yesterd...

Camp Near Edinburg, Virginia , April 4, 1862. We make life musical these hot sunny days with the screeching whir of shells or the sharp...

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

Camp Near Winchester , March 13, 1862. At last! My prophecy of yesterday found its fulfilment rapidly enough. Half an hour after my let...

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

Charlestown, VirgiNia , February 28, 1862. A story to tell, and no time to tell it in. That is my record. After tedious waiting in Fred...

cantonment Hicks , Near Frederick, January 13, 1861. “Si le combat est pr é vu, la troupe se met en grande tenue; elle doit cette polit...