Attended service in dining hall. Chaplain S. officiated, and spoke very well. At the close I gave him the message sent by two sick men in my...

The aptness of the pupils, as a whole, is really surprising. Some have learned the alphabet, I am told, in three days, and others in a week....

Last Wednesday Miss O. and myself visited Hospital No. 1, for the second time. They were just robing one young boy in his soldier's su...

February 11. It is to be remembered that the officers of a regiment in which the privates do not read and write, have much to do that woul...

Very much interested lately in the hospitals; not only in our own, “the Robertson hospital,” but in Mr. –––’s, the officers’ hospital.” ...

Spent the day at the hospital. Mr. ––– has just received a post chaplaincy from Government, and is assigned to the Officers' Hospital o...

Vienna, Va ., Nov. 19, 1863. . . . I wish that you and could make as pleasant arrangements for winter-quarters as E. and I have made. W...

Quite warm. It rained very hard this afternoon. There is no news of any importance. Everything appears so dull and the time passes so slowl...

Centreville , Sept. 2d. Did I tell you that I saw my classmate, William J. Potter, in Washington? Potter was settled as clergyman in Ne...