I yesterday took a steamer with a small company, consisting among others of Postmaster-General Blair, Senators Doolittle and Grimes, Messrs...

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

Camp Hicks , December 9, 1861, near Frederick, Maryland. To sit in one's tent in the sunshine, and look out through the grove upon ...

Camp Hicks, Near Frederick , December 7, 1861. When I scribbled a hasty note to send by Colonel Andrews, I was looking grimly forward t...

Camp Near Seneca , November 19, 1861. By every rule of gratitude, after receiving father's long and cheerful letter this morning, t...

muddy Branch Camp, Camp Near Seneca, November 1, 1861. You have your choice of dates, for I think our camp lies between the two, and ...

camp Near Seneca , October 28, 1861. I wish you could have looked in on our camp this morning. The stockings came last night. They wer...

Camp Hicks, Near Frederick, Md., December 8, 1861. I take the opportunity of Captain Williams' going home to send a letter direct...

Harper's Ferry, Va ., July 23, 1861. Since my letter from Martinsburg, I have hardly had time to take a pen in my hand, we have bee...

Sunday, April 20, 1862. You will already see by what I have written yesterday, that the prospect of our having work before us is quite ...

CAMP AT CATLETT'S STATION, April 19, 1862. My last letter was written from Manassas Junction. Yesterday we broke up that camp and m...