CAMP SAXTON, BEAUFORT, S. C., April 2, 1863. Evening. Such is the management here that my notes no longer date from satisfactory advance p...

Green Square, Savannah, Ga.  January 9, 1865.  Thinking we for once in the service had a chance to enjoy quiet life, two of our number were ...

February 5. Lieut. [James B.] O'Neil informed me today that during the eight years of his military life in Texas, Utah and in the presen...

January 21, Evening. Great days seem natural to us now. General Hunter has reviewed our regiment with Gen. Saxton, and the Colonel's lon...

STEAMER Ben Deford, January 23, 1863. I have refrained till now from informing you of a little expedition which for the last few days has be...

St. Simon's Bay, January 24.  At nine this morning we entered this bay expecting to find the John Adams waiting for us, but she was not ...

January 9, 1863. This morning, the adjutant and I, with eight oarsmen, went down to Hilton Head in our surf boat. The distance cannot b...

CAMP SAXTON, BEAUFORT, S. C. December 27, 1862. . . . There is a little more of solid reality in this work of camp-life than I have ...

MORE BOATS ASHORE AND SINKING. Three more boats ashore and leaking, one of them is the U. S. mail-boat Suwanee, from Fortress Monroe fo...

HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,                Washington, December 18 , 1864 . (Via Hilton Head.) Maj. Gen. W. T. SHERMAN, Savannah: M...

Before church we all, superintendents and the few ladies, stood under the oaks and talked of our dangers, and then Mr. Horton led us in to ...

An exciting day. This morning Mr. Eustis came over and told Mr. Hooper that we ought to be ready to go at a moment's notice. For two we...

Ellen is coming at last. I felt sure no one could stop her. Mr. McKim is also to come as Philadelphia agent, and I am free. We have bee...

[Copy] Confidential Office of Chief Engineer Ex Corps Hilton Head S.C. Dec. 30" 1861 Brig, Genl" T. W. Sherman Commandin...

Our men have returned from Hilton Head and nearly all are eager to go there again and serve in the forts, though Marcus says he does not wi...

St. Helena's , May 13, 1862. Yesterday was a gloomy day on this island. I have been interrupted by a wedding. Tom and Lucy have jus...

Monday, May 12, 1862. The black day. Yesterday afternoon, Captain Hazard Stevens and orderly came here with an order from General Hu...

St. Helena’s , May 5, 1862. Public business before private, and I have only time to say by this mail that I am well and safe, and happy...

HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,           Washington, December 18, 1864. (Via Hilton Head.) Maj. Gen. W. T. SHERMAN, Savannah: My DEAR ...

FORT MONROE, January 6 , 1865 — 3 p.m. General GRANT: I arrived here an hour ago en route for Savannah, by way of Hilton Head, and...