WASHINGTON, July 10 , 1864 — 2 . 30 p.m. Lieutenant-General GRANT: Your dispatch to General Halleck referring to what I may think i...

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 15 , 1864 — 10 p.m. Brig. Gen. J. A. RAWLINS: We have no report from Wright since this morning, nor from the...

“We now opened fire for the first time during the day, in the direction of the regiment or brigade that had so frightfully thinned our rank...

The following pertaining to Sheridan's battle of Winchester has been discovered since writing the foregoing. It will be answered in det...

We left Frederick under the cover of darkness last night, and after marching a round-about way which took nearly all night, brought up at F...

On Picket Near Culpepper, August 13, 1862. At last I believe I have a chance to write you an account of our doings during the last fe...

December 13, 1864 As the Rebels have known the fact for some time, and as the newspapers have hinted at it in unmistakable terms, I con...

City full of rumors and but little truth in any of them. Wilkes laid before me his plan for organizing the Potomac Flotilla. It is syste...

October 2, 1864 . . . The Washington boat was much in the style of the other — rather worse and more crowded, people and freight simila...

August 8, 1864 “What do you think of filling up with Germans?” you ask. Now, what do you think of a man who has the toothache — a werry...

July 6, 1864 We have no rain here — never expect any; air hazy with a faint dust, finer than twice volted flour, which settles on ever...

It is praise not to be pitched into by the Great Peppery: and he is very kind to me. To be sure, I watch him, as one would a big trout on a...