POST AT MUCKLESHUTE PRAIRIE,           NEAR STEILACOONE, W. T., April 20, 1856. MY DEAR COUSIN: By the time this reaches you the excitemen...

Confidential. Port Royal, Jany. 4, 62. My Dear Sir The Vanderbilt played us a scurvy trick yesterday, having gone off without our m...

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...

I ask the acceptance of this resignation. Capt. Lusk has been in most of the battles including the First Bull Run, from Beaufort to the dea...

Office Of The District Attorney Of The United States, For The Southern District Of NewYork. New-York , May 4th, 1863. Honorable Montgome...

Camp Near Falmouth, Va. Dec. 22nd, 1862. My dear Mother: Since the late disastrous affair at Fredericksburg, as before, I look in v...

New-York , Dec. 20th, 1862, Saturday. My own dear, dear Son: I have many times during the past week thought of writing you, but I c...

Near Fredericksburg,           Nov. 19th, 1862. My dear Mother: Here we are at last on familiar ground, lying in camp at Falmouth, ...

Near Rectorville, Va. November, 1862. My dear Mother: I received your half reproachful letter last night just after I had gone to b...

79th Regiment, Near Antietam Creek, Sept. 28th, 1862. My dear Horace: Here we are, still resting at the mouth of this muddy littl...

Mouth Of Antietam Creek, 79th Regiment, Sept. 28th, 1862. My dear Mother: I have been sitting smoking my pipe by moonlight, pleas...

Norwich , Sept 16th, 1862. My own dear Son: I have very little reason to believe in the probability of your receiving my many letters...

Norwich, Conn. September 12th, 1862. My own dear Son: You see I am following out my resolution to write you every day, although I h...

13th. I wrote Horace a day or two since, giving an account of Gen. Stevens' death from your letter, saying if it possessed any interest...

Norwich , Sept. 10th, 1862. Dear Horace: I received your letter on Sunday morning. I am satisfied that you will manage the business i...

Norwich, Conn. September 9th, 1862. My own dear Son: I am half sick, very sad, grieved, and troubled on your account, yet very than...

Headquarters 1st Division, 9th Army Corps, Meridian Hill, Washington, D. C. Sept. 6th, 1862. My dear Mother: Now that our General...

Headquarters 1st Div. Reno's Command, Near Alexandria , Sept. 4th, 1862. Dear Mother: Once more, after a lapse of nearly five w...