Once more we are on the wing. Yesterday morning we were ordered to be ready to march when called on. Of course, the men do not expect to sta...

PARKE'S, July 3, 1863. General GRANT: I am this moment in, and have your dispatch. Telegraph me the moment you have Vicksburg in posse...

CAMP ON BEAR CREEK, July 4, 1863. Major-General GRANT: MY DEAR GENERAL: The telegraph has just announced to me that Vicksburg is ours; its ...

NEAR VICKSBURG, MISS., June 22 , 1863 . Maj. Gen. WILLIAM T. SHERMAN, Comdg. Fifteenth Army Corps: Information just received indicates ...

AT McCALL'S, June 23 , 1863 — 11 a.m. DEAR GENERAL: Parke, with Smith's division and one brigade of his Yankee troops, is on the...

GENERAL ORDERS, No. 49.} HDQRS. FIFTEENTH ARMY CORPS,           Camp at Bear Creek, June 29, 1863. The following modifications of existing ...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE TENNESSEE,                Near Vicksburg, Miss., June 15, 1863. Maj. Gen. JOHN A. McCLERNAND,           Comm...

CAMP, Walnut Hills, June 16, 1863—8 p.m. Lieut. Col. JOHN A. RAWLINS,           Assistant Adjutant-General, Department of the Tennessee: ...

MEMPHIS, TENN., June 10, 1863. Lieut. Col. JOHN A. RAWLINS, Assistant Adjutant-General: COLONEL: I have received to-day one letter from Ca...

HEADQUARTERS SIXTEENTH ARMY CORPS,           Memphis, Tenn., June 10, 1863. Lieut. Col. JOHN A. RAWLINS,          Assistant Adjutant-Gener...

THE LANDING AND MARCH. The morning of the 13th was dark and rainy, and we made preparations to land. It always rains where we go; first...

THE TROOPS BRIGADED. The troops encamped around here have been formed into three brigades, and will be commanded by Brigadier Generals...

Headquarters Del. Dept., Wilmington, Del. , Aug. 17th, 1863. My dear Mother: The month is rapidly passing away, and I am awaiting i...

WAR DEPARTMENT,           Washington City, March 25 , 1865 — 8 p.m. To the PRESIDENT: Your telegram and Parke's report* of the...

CITY POINT, VA., March 25 , 1865 — 1 . 30 p.m. Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War: The following dispatch of General Parke is ...

April 2, 1865 Last night was a busy one and a noisy. Some battery or other was playing the whole time, and, now and then, they would al...

April 1,1865 You will see the April Fool was on the Rebels; for they did not know that, the night before, we had sent down an entire co...

March 26, 1865 My letter of yesterday only gave a part of the day's work. Our train went briskly up to the front and stopped not ...

March 25, 1865 We may indeed call this a many-sided field-day: a breakfast with a pleasure party, an assault and a recapture of an entr...

Headquarters Army Of Potomac November 10, 1864 They have been singularly niggardly to us about election returns; but we have reli...