The drawing room was again crowded last night, and we got up an important dance on the spur of the moment. General Kershaw, General Gary, an...

Near Petersburg, Va . ,           November 28, 1864. The mails seem to be greatly deranged again, for I have not heard one word from you i...

  Newberry , S.  C.           , May 2, 1865 . It was well you left Petersburg when you did, for the very next day (April 2) our extreme ri...

CAMP NEAR BERRYVILLE, September 4, (1864).  Sunday evening.  DEAREST:— We had one of the fiercest fights yesterday I was ever in. It was bet...

CAMP OF SHERIDAN'S ARMY NEAR BERRYVILLE, VIRGINIA,  September 6, P. M., 1864.  DEAR UNCLE: — Saturday evening (September 3) my brigade a...

CITY POINT, August 16 , 1864 — 1 . 30 p.m.                (Received 6 . 30 a.m. 17 th.) Major-General SHERIDAN, Commanding, &c...

BERRYVILLE, VA ., August 17 , 1864 — 9 p.m. Lieut. Gen. U.S. GRANT, Commanding Armies of the United States: All your dispatches h...

WAR DEPARTMENT,           Washington City, April 7 , 1865 — 10 a.m. Major-General Dix, New York: General Sheridan attacked and r...

My wounds were very painful during the night, my lips and face are terribly swollen and my jaws are in shocking condition, but I'm than...

Received marching orders for to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock last evening. We were up at 3 o'clock a. m. and ready to march at dayl...

It has been a terribly warm day. The enemy being too well posted at Totopotomy to attack, Grant concluded to move to Cold Harbor about fift...

Yesterday I broke down — gave way to abject terror under the news of Sherman's advance with no news of my husband. To-day, while wrappe...

Cedar Creek , Oct. 17, '64. There's really nothing to tell here; I never have anything to tell even to E. We are in a glorious ...

Tuesday evening (September 20). We had a very successful action yesterday, and the cavalry did well. Both the other brigades of the di...

Found it quite exciting to have a spy drinking his tea with us — perhaps because I knew his profession. I did not like his face. He is said...

Mrs. Randolph came. With her were the Freelands, Rose and Maria. The men rave over Mrs. Randolph's beauty; called her a magnificent spe...

To-day I saw a sword captured at Manassas. The man who brought the sword, in the early part of the fray, was taken prisoner by the Yankees....

Have been looking at Mrs. O'Dowd as she burnished the “Meejor's arms” before Waterloo. And I have been busy, too. My husband has go...

CHARLESTON, S. C. — I have just come from Mulberry, where the snow was a foot deep — winter at last after months of apparently May or June...

HEADQUARTERS, PETERSBURG, September 27, 1864. GEN. J. A. EARLY, Commanding Valley. GENERAL: Your letter of the 25th instant is rece...