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

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

 Warm; rain and wind (south) all night. Quiet below. One of the enemy's pickets said to one of ours, last night, that Warren's cor...

NEW CREEK, (WEST) VIRGINIA, April 8, 1865. DEAREST:— The glorious news is coming so fast that I hardly know how to think and feel about it. ...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,              May 12 , 1864 — 9 . 15 a.m. Major-General WARREN, Commanding Fifth Corps: The ord...

AIKEN'S LANDING, April 5 , 1865 — 11 . 30 a.m.    (Received 2 p.m.) Hon. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War: Little is kno...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, July 2 , 1863 — 8 p.m. (Received July 3 , 5 . 15 p.m.) Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK, General-in-Chief...

Nicolay leaves to-day for the Rocky Mountains. . .   Had a little talk with the President about Milroy. Says Halleck thinks Schenck never h...

Our army's line is about five miles long this morning and runs northwest by southeast. General Hancock occupies the right followed by G...

Just heard from W. and S. H. Both places in ruins, except the dwelling-houses. Large portions of the Federal army were on them for eight da...

No. 77. Report of Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick, U. S. Army, commanding Sixth Army Corps. Headquarters Sixth Army Corps, December 4, 1...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, May 4 , 1863 – [Hour not stated.] General SEDGWICK: I have reported your situation to General Hoo...

April 1,1865 You will see the April Fool was on the Rebels; for they did not know that, the night before, we had sent down an entire co...

March 31, 1865 The rain held up about ten A.M. and the sun once more shone. By this time our lines, running east and west, had been mov...

March 30, 1865 I take advantage of a rainy morning to draw you a map and start a letter, to explain and recount the deeds of yester...

Last night I could not sleep, in consequence of a threat made by one of the Yankee soldiers in our kitchen. He said that 30,000 soldiers ha...

March 28, 1865 You must let me off with a few lines to-night, because I have some little packing yet to do and would like a good modicu...

March 8, 1865 Yesterday, as I hinted in my last, we had a toot, of much duration. At ten A.M. the General got a telegraph (one of those...

December 14, 1864 General Winthrop [in speaking of Warren's operations] said his brigade bivouacked in a cornfield; it blew, snowed...

December 11, 1864 Weather as before — only a little more so. I suppose they have a good deal such in England. If so, don't want to ...