Dear Captain , — How are you? I'm prisoner of war. It seems to run in the family.* I hope you won't have it. I wish that you may fi...

Lieutenant Dwight, the General's brother, was shot by a guerilla. He had been to the rear with dispatches and when returning, in passin...

Camp Between New Market And Sparta , Thursday, April 24, 1862. When I awoke on Easter morning in my dripping bivouac, and looked gloo...

camp Near Edinburg, Virginia , April 13, 1862. My Dear Mother , — We have been stirred by the news from Grant's and Buell's arm...

Camp Near Strasboro, Virginia , March 31, 1862. I was glad to hear, from your letter of the 23d, that you have been doing something, an...

camp Near Winchester, Virginia , March 21, 1862. If you had looked upon our camp at sunrise reveill é , this morning, you would have se...

camp Near Winchester , Virginia, March 20, 1862. I have no sympathy with the strains of peace which come to me in your last letters. In...

Camp Near Winchester , March 13, 1862. At last! My prophecy of yesterday found its fulfilment rapidly enough. Half an hour after my let...

camp Near Berryville , March 12, 1862. Ten miles from Winchester. A rapid, muddy march brought us to Berryville on Monday afternoon. ...

Cantonment Hicks, Raining like the recent Federal victories, and dark and cloudy as the Rebel prospects, February 19, 1862. Hurra...

Camp Hicks , December 23, 1861. Dear D——, — I do assure you that your Christmas remembrance has warmed and cheered and brightened this...

camp Hicks, near Frederick , December 20, 1861. It was only the immediate pressure of another topic that crowded out the mention of th...

Howard Dwight called to see me this afternoon. Grover's Division has started. We shall start to-morrow. SOURCE: Francis Winthrop...

There is something gay, inspiriting, exciting, in a fine review. The brigade burnishes its equipments and perfects its uniform. It also put...

Camp Near Seneca , November 6, 1861. “The war cannot be long. It may be desperate.” This is not prophecy from the closet. It is inspira...

PLEAsanT HiLL, MARYLanD , October 9, 1861. my Dear Father , — Your prompt and energetic kindness is truly splendid. I think one thousan...

Pleasant Hill , October 7, 1861, Camp near Darnestown. “Turn out the Guard, Officer of the Day!” Such has been the salutation with wh...

pleasant Hill , Sunday Evening, September 29, 1861, Camp near Darnestown. An opportunity presents itself, this morning, to send a let...

September 26. Cold weather seems to have set in upon us. I hope our Rebel brothers the other side of the Potomac are suffering the same...

PLEASANT HILL, CAMP NEAR Darnestown , September 27, 1861. A dark, dull, rainy day without, a calm, quiet, cosey tent within. At peac...