In camp eight miles from Oxford. We cannot move our camps but a few miles distance from the railroad, as all our subsistence depends on our ...

WOODSTOCK, VIRGINIA, September 23, 1864. DEAREST:- We fought the enemy again (yesterday] at Fisher's Hill near Strasburg. They had for...

Eight miles east of Summerville,  November 30, 1864.  Passed through the above named town this morning. All pine woods again to-day. Stopped...

Martinsburg , July 17 (Sunday), 1864. Dearest : — A week ago, about this time, we were enjoying our pleasant ride like young lovers on ...

I baffled many curious and civil citizens by breakfasting in my room, where I remained writing till late in the day. In the afternoon I wal...

April 25. . . . I desire . . . to say that we can send to you four thousand more troops from Massachusetts within a very short time aft...

Late last night the President told General Scott to send Captain Taylor back to the Confederate lines, and he was accordingly escorted to A...

(Private) New Orleans, October 27th, 1862. Dear Sir : Gen. Weitzel left here three days ago, with five Regiments Infantry, four compa...

New Orleans , Aug. 26th, 1862. Dear Sir : The troops at Baton Rouge have evacuated the place, without destroying it, and are now joined...

New York , May 1862. Sir : You desired me to put in writing the statements made to you by me while in Washington. In compliance with th...

Just at dawn, I woke up and got out on the platform of the carriage, which is the favorite resort of smokers and their antithetics, those w...

Headquarters, City Of New York , Nov. 7, 1864. Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary Of War : Sir: — I beg leave to report that the troops ...

The latest information which I received today is of a nature to hasten my departure for Washington; it can no longer be doubted that a batt...

Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, Lagrange, Tenn., May 7, 1863. Isn't the Grierson "raid" glorious? Two other expeditions st...

Some days ago I called the attention of the Senate to abuses in Missouri with reference to fugitive slaves. Since then I have received a g...

An active man would soon go mad if he were confined in Cairo. A mudbank stretching along the course of a muddy river is not attractive to a...

Verily I would be sooner in the Coptic Cairo, narrow streeted, dark bazaared, many flied, much vexed by donkeys and by overland route passe...