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...

Left at 8 A.M., and seven miles took us to Hagerstown, Md. Here the men greeted us very shabby, but the ladies quite the reverse. This town ...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, July 5 , 1863 .     (Received 11 a.m.) Major-General FRENCH: GENERAL: Major-General Meade desir...

Chambersburg, Penn ., June 30, 1859. John Henrie, Esq. Dear Sir , — We leave here to-day for Harper's Ferry, via Hagerstown. When...

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

I left Hagerstown at 8 A.M., in my conductor's good buggy, after saying farewell to Lawley, the Austrian, and the numerous Confederate ...

Lawley, the Austrian, and I drove into Hagerstown this morning, and General Longstreet moved into a new position on the Williamsport road, ...

I got up a little before daylight, and, notwithstanding the drenching rain, I secured our horses, which, to my intense relief, were present...

in Camp, Martinsburg , Saturday, July 13, 1861. Voici que nous sommes arriv é s. I am in my tent, on the high ground, south of the town...

Left Hagerstown, leaving a detail for provost duty in town. Marched through Williamsport, wading the Potomac, over into Virginia, pushing a...

A field hospital and camp was established to the north on the Chambersburg road, about two miles from town. A fine location. Plenty of good...

Marching orders. Broke camp. After a short march, go into camp on high ground near the Potomac River. Plenty of water here where we could b...