This evening finds us at the base of Kenesaw. We are reminded that this name has gone to history, associated with deeds of valor; where Loga...

McCulloch, Stanton, and Dennison are absent from Washington. Seward read a letter from Bigelow at Paris, which indicates peace, though all t...

WASHINGTON, March 7, 1867. Dear Brother: ... You will have noticed that my name is connected with the Reconstruction Law. I did nothing bu...

[St. Louis, March 24, 1866] I am sorry to hear that the President is likely to break with the party. It should not be, but Congress should...

HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION                     OF THE MISSISSIPPI,           ST. Louis, Mo., April 2, 1866. Dear Brother: I know the rai...

Head Quarters, Dept. of the T[en] Near Vicksburg, July 4th 1863, Spl. Orders, No 180 II II 1 Immediately On the surrender of the City ...

SPECIAL ORDERS, No. 180.} HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE TENNESSEE,           Near Vicksburg, Miss., July 4, 1863. I. On the surrender of Vicksburg, M...

MCPHERSON'S, July 1, 1863. Major-General GRANT: The mine on Logan's front is ready, and the enemy appear to be digging in toward i...

BEFORE VICKSBURG, July 1, 1863—11 a.m. Major-General LOGAN, Commanding Third Division. GENERAL: The mine in your front will be exploded ...

[July 1, 1863.] The mine was successfully Exploded today damaging the enemy's works considerably & killing & wounding a number...

ORD'S, July 1 , 1863 . Nothing further than the dispatch from Herron, which came from Logan and Major Wilson, via Warrenton. Wilson w...

Drury's Bluff, Va., May 9, 1865. We were reviewed by Howard, Logan and Hartsuff this morning as we passed through Petersburg. We lie t...

Manchester, Va., May 10, 1865. The rain yesterday made the road, which is a splendid one fifty yards wide, just right for traveling. We pa...

April 12, 1865, 10 a. m. We hear this a. m. that Lee has surrendered to Grant the army of northern Virginia. It created a great deal of en...

Raleigh, April 15, 1865. To-day makes four years soldiering for me. It is a terrible waste of time for me who have to make a start in life...

Five miles south of Cheraw, S. C., March 3, 1865. General Wood says we have made 24 miles to-day. Our whole corps on one road and hardly a...

West's Cross Roads, 13 miles northeast of Camden, S. C., February 24, 1865. Made 14 miles a little south of east. We passed about a mile...

Twenty-four miles southeast of Columbia, S. C., February 13, 1865. Made 18 miles to-day. Rear guard for the corps in the morning, but the 2d...

 EXPLANATORY Note. Until this time the 15th Army Corps had never had a Corps Badge, though the other corps commanders had long tried to indu...

GENERAL ORDERS No. 10.} HDQRS. FIFTEENTH ARMY CORPS,           Baker's Plantation, S.C., February 14 , 1865 . I. The following is anno...