ON THE RAPIDAN,           MAY 20TH, 1863. MY PRECIOUS WIFE: I am at last safely encamped with the Fourth Texas Regiment in a beautiful grov...

CAMP ON THE RAPIDAN,           MAY 25TH, 1863. MY PRECIOUS WIFE: I have written to you by every opportunity I have had since I left home, a...

CAMP ON THE RAPIDAN,           MAY 26TH, 1863. MY PRECIOUS WIFE: The order to move has been countermanded for the present, and we will be o...

CAMP ON THE RAPIDAN,           MAY 30TH, 1863. MY PRECIOUS WIFE: I write you a few lines by an Irishman who has just gotten a discharge fro...

CAMP NEAR CULPEPPER,           JUNE 8TH, 1863. MY PRECIOUS WIFE: I have determined to write you another letter, although I cannot do so wit...

CAMP NEAR MILLWOOD, TWENTY MILES                     WEST OF HARPER'S FERRY           , JUNE 23RD, 1863. To  Miss  Decca  Stark ,  Colum...

CHAMBERSBURG, PA., JUNE 9TH, 1863. MY PRECIOUS WIFE. I had not intended to write until the 9th of July, or until a battle occurred, but ...

Received orders to retrace our steps and marched fourteen miles over the same dusty road and are now camped in two miles of Raccoon Ford. I ...

On yesterday evening we received orders to cook three days rations and be ready to march today at daylight. We were up late at night cooking...

On yesterday we marched six miles to a large open field beyond Culpepper to witness a review of General Stuart's cavalary [ sic ]. There...

On the morning of the 6th, Saturday, we were ordered to be prepared to march at 12 o'clock. We started about 1 o'clock towards the R...

This morning about six o'clock there was heavy cannonading towards the Rappahanock. It is now after nine o'clock and the firing stil...

Went yesterday to call on General Kershaw. Found Henry Deas, Albert Doby and Charley Dunlap at his headquarters. Neddy Dunlap is forage mast...

COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA. The date of May 13th was written at the depot in Augusta, Georgia, and brings me to my arrival at that place. I ...

I spent yesterday morning writing to my precious wife. I wrote two letters; one to take the chances and uncertainties of the mails; the othe...

I left with Decca Stark. There was no incident worth mentioning between Columbia and Winsboro. We met Stark Means at the depot. He is in fin...

Left Raleigh about 9 o'clock yesterday morning. The road from Raleigh to Weldon is the most crooked and through the most broken country ...

Left Richmond yesterday about 6:30 o'clock a. m. Found a number of the Texas Brigade and a few of my regiment on the cars and soon becam...

While we are encamped life is so monotonous that I do not usually regard it as necessary to keep a diary, but occasionally we have a little ...

This morning about daylight we received orders to be ready to march at 8:30. All is bustle now getting ready. I have been to the spring for ...