HAGERSTOWN, MD., JULY 8TH, 1863. To  Master  Stark  West,  four years old: MY DEAR LITTLE MAN: I wrote to mamma from our camp near Chamber...

Mustered for three months' pay. Started from Myersville at ten A.M. Marched to Hanover, and went into camp at half-past four, where we s...

Nothing of interest doing here. The news is not encouraging. Grant has burned Jackson and evacuated the place, falling back toward Vicksburg...

Relay House Station, on the Northern Central R. R. Just where that is I haven't yet found out. We stood up or laid down in the street fr...

Orders got too strict for my candle and I had to put it out. We made so much noise that the doors were shut on us finally and we were in pit...

Well, I have had a good sleep, if I did have a hard time getting it. Our cornstalk bed which promised so well, did not prove so. The stalks ...

CAMP MILLINGTON, BALTIMORE. From the time of our home-coming and the royal welcome given us by the 150th, I have only made notes which I wil...

WASHINGTON, D. C., [July 1, 1866]. MY DEAR ONE:— We missed you so much at Gettysburg [June 28-30]. It was cool, fine weather. The company ...

Our company was ordered out as skirmishers to-day, as our regular skirmish corps was broken up during the fight. We were the rear of the arm...

The U. S. Sanitary Commission has been organized. Canandaigua sent Dr. W. Fitch Cheney to Gettysburg with supplies for the sick and wounded ...

HARRISBURG, PA., June 30 , 1863 ,                         (Received 5 . 30 p.m.) Maj. Gen. H W. HALLECK, General-in-Chief: As...

I am assured that our army is steadily, but I fear too slowly, moving upon Lee and the Rebels. There are, I hope, substantial reasons for ...

The President said this morning, with a countenance indicating sadness and despondency, that Meade still lingered at Gettysburg, when he sh...

I met the President and Seward at the War Department this morning. A dispatch from General Meade, dated 3 P.M. yesterday, is in very good t...

Nov. 18 we started from Washington to go to the consecration of the Soldiers’ Cemetery at Gettysburg. On our train were the President, Sewa...

We did not leave our camp till noon, as nearly all General Hill's corps had to pass our quarters on its march towards Gettysburg. One d...

Pleasant Valley , July 17, 1863. As usual it is raining to-day, for I think it has rained almost every day for three weeks, more or les...

camp Near Leetown, Jefferson Co ., Va., July 18,1863. . . . I wrote a short note to Papa from near Funkstown on the other side of the...

charlottesville , July 15th, 1863. My dear Wigfall, Hood and myself came to Staunton together and he remained there under charge of D...

Camp near Williamsport, Maryland, July 7th, 1863 Dear Papa, Since the 13th of June, inclusive, there has not been a day on which we...