CINCINNATI, October 1, 1866. MY DEAR GUY:— Your letter of the 18th came duly to hand. It finds me in the midst of an unusually exciting po...

CINCINNATI, October 6, 1866. DEAR UNCLE:— We are talking of putting a notice in the papers about two boys we lost a fortnight ago. They le...

FORT WAYNE, INDIANA, October 15, 1866. MY DARLING:— I got here this evening en route for the Pacific Railroad. Buckland joins me at Chicag...

FREMONT, November 20, 1866. MY DARLING:— The boys are healthy and happy. They enjoy their schools and appear to be improving. The pet pige...

CLEVELAND, July 30, 1865. DEAR LUCY:— The Twenty-third goes out in fine feather. Perhaps no regiment from Ohio is so fortunate in its rece...

NEW CREEK, WEST VIRGINIA, April 19, 1865. MY DARLING:— I have just returned from Cumberland to meet Dr. Joe from Winchester and to see the...

[Cumberland, April 20, 1865.] We are all well. The time passes slow now that there is no work in view. The Rebels all feel disposed to qui...

NEW CREEK, (WEST) VIRGINIA, April 8, 1865. DEAREST:— The glorious news is coming so fast that I hardly know how to think and feel about it. ...

Winchester, April 13, 1865 It must be pleasant to those worthies who put on so much style to reflect that while there was fighting to be d...

CAMP HASTINGS, March 12, 1865. MY DARLING: — I am very glad to have heard from or of you several times during the last week. While your rh...

CUMBERLAND, MARYLAND, February 23, 1865. MY DEAREST:— . .  .  As to the visit to Washington, the capture of General Crook may change my ch...

CUMBERLAND, MARYLAND, March 5, 1865. DEAREST: — General Sheridan has got together all the four-footed beasts of this region and mounted hi...

CUMBERLAND, MARYLAND, January 5, 1865. DEAREST: – I am just in receipt of yours of the 21st. It has probably been on the hunt of me a week...

A pleasant and “merry Christmas.” A good dinner. Captain Nye, Lieutenants Turner and Stanley, Dr. Webb, Majors Carey, Twenty-third, and McKo...

A bright, warm day; snow turns to water and mud; mud everywhere! Rode into Winchester with Captain Abbott and Dr. Joe. Hastings in good plig...

Camp RUSSELL, VIRGINIA, December 9 (Evening), 1864. MY DARLING:— We have had two winter days. It has been snowing for the last hour or tw...

CAMP RUSSELL NEAR WINCHESTER, VIRGINIA, December 6, 1864. DEAR MOTHER: — I received your cheerful letter on Sunday. It finds us in the best ...

Windy and very cold, but dry. Rode with Dr. Joe around the works on our left. Bitterly cold. Some things look as if we were to move up the V...

CAMP AT CEDAR CREEK, VIRGINIA, NOVEMBER 2, 1864. MY DARLING: — We get trains through from Martinsburg regularly once in four days. We retu...

CAMP CEDAR CREEK, VIRGINIA, November 4, 1864. MY DEAR SON;— This is your birthday — eleven years old today — almost a man. In less than el...