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...

NEW CREEK, April 28, 1865. MY DARLING:—Yours came yesterday. I can't yet decide anything, either as to your coming here, or as to my q...

Raleigh, April 18, 1865. Sherman has gone out again to see Johnston. Johnston asked for another day in order to see Davis and get his perm...

April 12, 1865, 10 a. m. We hear this a. m. that Lee has surrendered to Grant the army of northern Virginia. It created a great deal of en...

Left bank of Neuse River, 20 miles East of Raleigh, April 12, 1865, 4 p. m. Twelve miles to-day. Our cavalry pushed ahead and drove the Rebe...

Fighting commenced early. 24 and 15 Corps up. Infantry coming up double quick. Rebs attacked. Drove cavalry back. Infantry turned the tide....

Maud's boots, $3.00, Vegetables, .12, Bread, .04 . . . Ribbons for victory, .40. To-day we have the news of Lee's surrender with th...

FARMVILLE , VA., April 8 , 1865 — 12 m. Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War: The enemy so far have been pushed from the road to...

APRIL 9, 1865 . Lieut. Gen. U.S. GRANT, Commanding U.S. Armies: GENERAL: I received your note of this morning on the picket-line, ...

Spend most of day writing, at 12. m. a salute of 200 guns fired by order of Genl Canby in honor of the surrender of Genls Lee to Grant ...

Spend most of this day writing have a little difficulty in co. col Mackey orders me to tie one of my men for refusing to clean his gun whic...

No. 211 Camp St. “All things are taken from us, and become portions and parcels of the dreadful pasts.” . . . Thursday the 13th cam...

The Episcopal churches being closed, we went to the Rev. Dr. Hoge's church. The rector was absent; he went off, to be in Confederate li...

Fearful rumours are reaching us from sources which it is hard to doubt, that it is all too true, and that General Lee surrendered on Sunday...

We have heard nothing new to-day confirming the report of the surrender, which is perhaps the reason my spirit feels a little more light. W...

No light on our sorrow — still gloomy, dark, and uncertain. I went to-day to the hospital, as was my duty. My dear friend S. T. chee...

Another gloomy Sabbath-day and harrowing night. We went to St. Paul's in the morning, and heard a very fine sermon from Dr. Minnegerode...

Just now, when Mr. Clay dashed up-stairs, pale as a sheet, saying, “General Lee has capitulated,” I saw it reflected in Mary Darby's fa...

My heart is as full as it can be. I did not know till it was lifted this morning how heavy a load we had been bearing. I think of all thos...

April 9, 1865 We all were up, according to habit, about daylight, with horses saddled, having staid near Stute's house for the nigh...