Headquarters Provost Marshal's Office Washington , Jan. 27th, 1863. My dear Lusk: I have received yours of Jan. 24th and gone t...

This has been the first pleasant day I've seen in Vermont since I came home; met Captain P. D. Blodget on the street; was glad to see h...

Went to see Dr. Thayer about getting my leave extended about 10 o'clock a. m.; found him at his house but cranky; would not, to my surp...

It has been an anxious morning for me; went over to Sandy Hook and waited until 11 o'clock a. m. when the clerk handed me my leave, and...

O, what a delightful morning! And the scenery here about Harper's Ferry is so grand that it makes it all the more enjoyable. Of course,...

My predictions are fully realized, it has rained torrents all day; haven't done a thing but mope over the fire; so muddy outside it...

Dec. 15th, 1863. I have passed many anxious months lately, in this siege of Charleston. My only child and son was at Fort Sumter, a Fir...

Charleston, Virginia. —Leave this morning on the steamboat for Gallipolis. Reached there at 2 P. M. A drizzly, cold day, snow on the hil...

Dr. Jim left this morning for home, taking letters to Lute, Mother, Uncle, Platt, and others. Warm and bright all day, but oh, so muddy! Ca...

Edinburg , Oct. 7, 1864. About leaves; that is a thing I don't like to do, — come away from the field before winter-quarters, — esp...

Headquarters Army Of Potomac December 10, '63 All the officers are inclined to be petulant and touchy, for they think that winter...

CAMP NEAR FALMOUTH, VA., March 12, 1863. You will see by the papers that we have all been confirmed, with the dates of our appointment....