Jerrolaman went out this afternoon and picked nearly a peck of blackberries. Berries of various kinds are very abundant. The fox-grape is al...

At one o'clock P. M. General Reynolds sent for Two of Colonel Wagner's companies had been surrounded, and an attack on Wagner's ...

The scouting party sent out this morning were conveyed by wagons six miles up the valley, and were to take to the mountains, half a mile bey...

I have a hundred axmen in my charge, felling timber on the mountain, and constructing rough breastworks to protect our left flank. General...

CIRCULAR.] HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,           Taneytown, July 1 , 1863 . From information received, the commanding general is sat...

A telegram this morning advises me of the death of General R. C. Hale, the brother of Mrs. Welles, at Reedsville in the County of Mifflin, ...

Who but Sheridan, as at Cedar Creek, Va., Oct. 19, 1864, just a month to a day after his splendid victory at Opequan Creek, Sept. 19, 1864,...

We did not leave our camp till noon, as nearly all General Hill's corps had to pass our quarters on its march towards Gettysburg. One d...

Pleasant Valley , July 17, 1863. As usual it is raining to-day, for I think it has rained almost every day for three weeks, more or les...

Pennsylvania Executive Chamber, Harbisburg , 26th September, 1862. General ,—Having relieved you from duty as commander of the Pennsy...

The President publishes a dispatch from Lee, announcing a victory! The enemy has been driven from all his intrenchments, losing many batter...

Camp Near Berlin, Maryland, July 17, 1863. My dear Miss Sedgwick: As you no doubt already know, from newspapers if not from letters...

Headquarters 6th Corps, Camp Near White Oak Church, May 13, 1863. My dear Miss Sedgwick: The General has just informed me that yo...

No. 206. Report of Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick, U. S. Army, commanding Sixth Army Corps. HEADQUARTERS SIXTH ARMY CORPS, May 15 , 1863...