Headquarters Stevens's Div. Burnside's Expedition, Newport News, Va. July 20th, 1862. My dear Mother: I rode over yest...

Headquarters 1st Division, Battery Island, June 25th, 1862. My dear Mother: I have received your kind letters with their urgent r...

James Island , June 17th, 1862. My dear Mother: Yesterday was for us a hard, cruel, memorable day, memorable for its folly and wicked...

Headquarters 2d Division, James Island , June 17th, 1862. My dear Uncle: I write to impose a solemn duty upon you, which involves t...

Headquarters 2d Division, James Island, June 10th, 1862. My dear Mother: I saw a few moments ago a mail-bag walking off — hailed i...

Beaufort, S. C . May 28th, 1862. My dear Mother: After 12 o'clock at night, and the certainty of a fatiguing day to-morrow, to be...

Admiral Du Pont arrived to-day; looks hale and hearty. He is a skillful and accomplished officer. Has a fine address, is a courtier with pe...

No. 206. Report of Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick, U. S. Army, commanding Sixth Army Corps. HEADQUARTERS SIXTH ARMY CORPS, May 15 , 1863...

April 2, 1865 Last night was a busy one and a noisy. Some battery or other was playing the whole time, and, now and then, they would al...

General Benham's brigade marched back towards Gauley, leaving here with cheers after their inclement night! Colonel Scammon went on rec...

General Benham's brigade return from the pursuit of Floyd. He runs like a quarter-horse. One of the servants says that when Floyd was h...

A dark, cold, rainy morning. Marching before daylight in pitchy darkness. ( Mem. : — Night marches should only be made in extremest cases; ...

Had a good march down to Gauley — the whole Third Brigade under General Schenck. Weather warm as summer, almost hot. Crossed New River at f...

October 7, 1864 There is a certain General Benham, who commands the engineers at City Point, and was up about laying out some works. Ch...

Birch River, Eighteen Miles North Of Summersville, Sunday, September 15, 1861. Dearest : — We are as happy and care-for-nothing [a] s...

Marched seventeen miles, drove enemies' pickets out of Summersville, followed nine miles to Gauley river. Enemy entrenched on a hill,...

As officer of the day, I rode all day — up Birch, crossing it forty times and going fifty to sixty miles. Rode out to pickets with General ...

As judge-advocate, with General Benham, Colonels Scammon, Smith, et al., I tried two cases. J. W. Trader, etc. SOURCE: Charles Richard ...

Sutton, Or Suttonville, Virginia , September 5, 1861. DEAREST: — We are in another camp of fine views. This is the last stronghold of o...

Beverly, Virginia , August 25, 1861, Sunday A. M. Dearest : — Supposing I might have to go on towards Cheat Mountain this morning, I wr...