April 30. Tomorrow I am to be blessed by taking into my employment, York Brown. The old man has been nurse in the hospital during the last...

March 27, 1863. This afternoon our eyes were gladdened by the sight of the Boston and Convoy steaming up the river, but when, instead of a...

March 28, Evening. Not yet off. Have worked enough for one day in getting our sick and wounded on the John Adams. Another steamer has arri...

No. 1. Report of Brig. Gen. Rufus Saxton, U. S. Army. BEAUFORT, S.C., March 14 , 1863 .  SIR: I have the honor to report that the exp...

March 7. This morning, at ten, the John Adams hove in sight. The officers report fog so dense as to prevent running her over the bar at Fe...

HEADQUARTERS, 1st S. C. Vols., JACKSONVILLE, FLA.           March 12, 1863. 1 For once I have been so busy that I could not find time to n...

March 14, Evening. A curious incident occurred this morning which gave me a full hundred (from both regiments) sick and wounded to examine...

February 24, 1863. Colonel [James] Montgomery's arrival from Key West, with the nucleus of the Second S. C. Vols. is an event of impor...

February 25, 1863. This afternoon our regiment was reviewed by Gen. Saxton in the presence of Gen. Hunter. The staff and body guards of th...

STEAMER Boston, March 6. Yesterday, at four P. M. the last tent was struck and we began to move down the river at eight this evening. 1 L...

Only, think of Colonel James Montgomery, United States volunteers; Captain John E. Stewart, same service. If Stewart had asked me for it he...

[ Mound City, Kansas , November 20, 1860.] In the winter of ’59, after the second expulsion of Border-ruffians, a county meeting, duly ...