Crackers all around the house at night. Fire-crackers, torpedoes, pistols, and bell-ringing, are enough to make one sick of one's countr...

Cincinnati, Ohio. We arrived here at 9:30 this morning. My day's work is, at last, completed, at 9 p. m. This has been a busy day. In fa...

Eighty-eight years this day since our fathers gave to the world that important document setting forth the immortal truth that all men are bo...

July 3d, 1863. We are encamped six miles from Haines Bluff, on a ridge of ground, in a perfect wilderness. I have hardly seen level ground...

July 4th, 1863. "Be ready to march at a minute's notice," is the order. At the same time we learn that Vicksburg has surrend...

Last Wednesday we moved from our encampment at Mound Bluff Church, and after two days' marching, came to this place, and we are now enca...

The Fourth has passed off quietly in the little town of Buckhannon and in camp. At ten o'clock the Third and Fourth Regiments were rev...

The day was duly celebrated in camp. Rhode Island furnished her troops with a good dinner. Prof. Sweet treated the multitude with a tight ro...

We laid on the battlefield of the first day, this the fourth day of July. No fighting to-day, but we are burying the dead. They have been ly...

July 4, 1860. DEAR GENERAL: My supply of official paper is running low, and I take this sheet to tell you in a private way that our celebr...

SEMINARY, July 6, 1860. DEAR GENERAL: I have received your note of yesterday with Colonel Bragg's letter which I have read with great ...

SEMINARY, June 28, 1860. . . . Last week I dismissed summarily two cadets of good families and large connexions. One has appealed to the B...

Early this morning the stillness is interrupted by the national salute, for it is the eighty-seventh anniversary of the nation's birth. ...

PARKE'S, July 3, 1863. General GRANT: I am this moment in, and have your dispatch. Telegraph me the moment you have Vicksburg in posse...

Will you permit the steamboat men to celebrate the fourth of July. By the firing of cannon from their respective steamers at sunrise & s...

CAMP ON BEAR CREEK, July 4, 1863. Major-General GRANT: MY DEAR GENERAL: The telegraph has just announced to me that Vicksburg is ours; its ...

Clear and dry; pleasant temperature. I learn that Petersburg has not been much injured by the enemy's batteries, and that Gen. Lee has...

[W ] e have a soldier's celebration, a barbacue and a grand dinner furnished by the officers of the regiment; we are also favored on the...

Like most other Sabbaths in the army, so was this; all day busy cleaning up the camp ground, tearing down the board shanties which former oc...

The 4th of July is fast approaching, and if we do not get our prize by that time, we will have a little celebration out here in the woods, f...