A clear day. The enemy in great force around Leesburg. We can see the church steeples of that place. Skirmishing kept up all day. In the eve...

Started out at half-past nine A.M., and marched to Loudon, passing through Harper's Ferry; and went into park at seven P.M. Eight miles....

Capt. Tompkins very suddenly marched off to Harper's Ferry, with the right section. Thunder storm in the evening. SOURCE: Theodore Rei...

Gen. Banks and staff honored our battery drill with their presence. Col. Geary of the Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania, and Capt. Tompkins, with t...

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: Of course I do not expect—speaking from this platform, and to you— to say any thing on the vital question of the hour,...

October 3d, 1862. We have moved camp three miles, and are now five miles above Harper's Ferry, on the banks of the Potomac. The days a...

October 12th. It is now nine o'clock of a Sabbath evening, and as I pen these lines my wife and children, perhaps are listening to wor...

RICHMOND, April 17, 1 1861. Well, my dearest one, Virginia has severed her connection with the Northern hive of abolitionists, and takes...

NEW YORK CITY, and my first peep at it. We are in City Hall Park, but I must go back and tell of our getting here. We had an all night's...

I TRUST that you will pardon me for being here. I do not wish to force my thoughts upon you, but I feel forced myself. Little as I know of C...