I was on guard in front of the Provost-marshall's office today. The troop began to move toward Holly Springs long before day light. Whil...

Broke camp today. Left for Oxford on our retreat to where, I don't know, as the rebel General Van Dorn, through the treachery of Colonel...

LUMPKINS MILLS, MISS. Passed the day in camp as Ross's division were passing on their way to Holly Springs. Weather beautiful. It made...

Started on our march to Memphis. Quimby's [ sic ] division are to guard a train of 600 empty wagons. The day's march was a terrible ...

Left Moscow for Holly Springs, Mississippi, at nine o'clock, marched twenty miles, encamped in the woods, slept soundly until awakened b...

Marched at 8 o'clock in the morning. General Grant passed us at about 10 o'clock; arrived at Holly Springs at about 11 o'clock; ...

 Bright and pleasant. The only news to-day was a dispatch from Gen. Hood, stating that the enemy had left Holly Springs, Miss., for the Mi...

MEMPHIS, October 22 , 1862 . Miss P. A. FRASER, Memphis: DEAR LADY: Your petition is received. I will allow fifteen days for the par...

Lagrange, Tenn., July 1, 1863. Everything moves quietly here. No more alarms or anything else to "bust" the confounded monoto...

Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, Lagrange, Tenn., April 24, '63. We have just returned from the hardest and yet by far the most pleas...

Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, Jackson, Tenn., January 16, 1862. It commenced raining early the morning of the 14th and did not cease u...

Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, Jackson, Tenn., January 12, 1863. Your letters are beginning to come through with more regularity and on...

Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, La Grange, Tenn., November 21, 1862. Every one seems to think that we will start about day after to-morr...

January 4, 1863. There I quit, for we received orders to get ready at once to march to Jackson, Tenn. The colonel ordered me to take ch...

Provost Marshal's Office, Waterford, Miss., December 30, 1862. Fifteen days outside the world and still we live. No papers of lat...

Provost Marshal's Office, Waterford, Miss., December 23, 1862. Suspect this will be my last from this country. Where the army is ...

December 3, 1862. We received marching orders at Lagrange, Tenn., at 9 o'clock p. m. on the 27th, and moved at 6 a. m. on the 28th,...

Camp at Lagrange, West Tennessee, November 7, 1862. To say that we have been crowded, jammed, put through, hustled, skited, etc., don...

The successes in the West have been confirmed. Morgan captured 2000 and Van Dorn 1500 prisoners at Holly Springs. They likewise destroyed a...

Christmas Day.—Northern papers show that there is much distraction in the North; that both Seward and Chase, who had resigned their positio...