HEADQUARTERS-CORPS OF CADETS,             July 4 , 1864 . GENERAL: In obedience to General Orders, No. --, headquarters Virginia Mili...

Lexington, Rockbridge County , June 12 (Sunday), 1864. Dearest : — I just hear that a mail goes tomorrow. We captured this town after an...

[ Lexington. ] General Hunter burns the Virginia Military Institute. This does not suit many of us. General Crook, I know, disapproves. It ...

ALEXANDRIA, Jan. 21, 1860. DEAR DOCTOR: . . . I endorse you, herewith, a draft of an act for making the Seminary a Military Academy by ...

After breakfast, Col. (Abbey) and I got a team and rode horseback to town for rations — got 3 days' rations. These troops from the Poto...

We attended this evening the funeral of Colonel Angus W. McDonald, the relative of Mr. –––. His is a sad story. He was educated at West Poi...

. . . I am in despair! Forty thousand troops are marching upon Richmond through here; eight thousand more left in Staunton, as an intellige...

We surely “dwell in the midst of alarms.” We were roused from our beds this morning at five o'clock by an order for the impressment of ...

Another day of awful suspense, for which there is yet no relief. Not a solitary letter or person has come from the army to Lexington; only ...

Phil returned with the carriage; Mr. P. went on to Winchester in an ambulance. Phil heard a gentleman say to him, just as he was stepping i...

Sunday. Came off picket. General Hunter is applying the torch to many buildings. I watched them burn. Among them were the Washington Milit...

Up and on the march by daylight. After a few hours marching, judging by the cannonading, there is hot work going on. We are pushing on for ...