WEST POINT, NEW YORK, November 5th, 1853. MY DEAR COUSIN: Before Congress meets and you become pressed with business incident thereto, I w...

WAR DEPARTMENT, May 24 , 1862 — 5 p.m. Major-General McDOWELL, Fredericksburg: General Frémont has been ordered by telegraph to ...

WAR DEPARTMENT, May 1 , 1862 . Major-General BANKS: The President directs that you fall back with the force under your immediate co...

Camp Jones, Flat Top Mountain . — Took the men to Glade Creek to wash. Water getting scarce in this quarter. The men danced to the fiddle, ...

camp Near New Market, Virginia , May 9, 1862. After passing three days in bivouac on the other side of the gap, we returned here last n...

in Bivouac Massanatan Pass, Opposite New Market, May 6, 1862. A word with you in the rough confusion of our mountain bivouac. Sun...

bivouac Near New Market, Virginia , Raining from the East. Easter Sunday, April 20, 1862. Looking back, it seems an age since we dwel...

camp Near EdinBurg , Virginia , April 11, 1862. Dear D——, — Reduced in my finances: I have not been paid since January 1. Reduced in my...

Camp Near Edinburg, Virginia , April 4, 1862. We make life musical these hot sunny days with the screeching whir of shells or the sharp...

winchester, Virginia , March 25, 1862. A blue March morning, and I have just returned from the battle-field. A sight to forget. I quest...

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

A wintry morning — snow two or three inches deep, ground frozen; the ninth day since this equinoctial set in. P. M. The sun came out bright...

There is lightning in the Northwest, and the deep thunder of avenging guns is heard at Washington! Gen. Jackson, sent thither by Gen. Lee, ...

Camp “Misery,” Two Miles South Of Newmarket , April 21, 1862. The name of our camp did not originate at headquarters, but it is the m...

Two weeks since Hooker drove Ewell at Bristow Station — and what weeks! Ten days of battle, and then such changes, — changes in which it is ...

NEAR BERRYVILLE, Aug. 19, 7 A. M. We are falling back: we commenced the day after the day I wrote you. I had the right rear, with order...

Jay Cooke came to breakfast, after which we talked financial matters. He thought gold could be easily obtained on deposit at 4%; and that,...

When we read of the battles in India, in Italy, in the Crimea, what did we care? Only an interesting topic, like any other, to look for in ...

General Jackson is performing prodigies of valor in the Valley; he has met the forces of Fremont and Shields, and whipped them in detail. T...

Genl. Shields came to breakfast and to visit the Ohio men of his command in the Cliffburne Hospital. He told me he desired greatly to have...