This has been a cool, windy, drying day and a few such are much needed to dry up the roads. In the absence of War news from the Army, all so...

Sent off ambulances to-day to commence bringing forward the sick of my regiment, and whilst they were gone, after having put my hospital in ...

[Washington Infirmary, July 25, 1861] My Dear Clara: I attended services at Manassas last Sunday, but before the meeting closed I was obli...

The Colonel left for Ohio to-day, to be gone two weeks. I came from the quarters of Brigadier-General Schleich a few minutes ago. He is a ...

Started at 4 this morning and marched ten miles toward Culpepper Court House. We tore up the railroad from Manassas to the Rappahannock Rive...

Hospital near Hamilton's Crossing, Va . ,           June 12, 1863. Our corps is lying in line of battle in the trenches, and has been ...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,           Saint Louis, January 30 , 1862 . Brig. Gen. U.S. GRANT, Cairo, Ill.: SIR: You ...

NASHVILLE, TENN., March 15 , 1862 . Major-General HALLECK: Your dispatch of yesterday received this morning. Undoubtedly we should...

We have reason to believe, if not the certainty, that Fort Donelson has fallen.   After a struggle, desperate on both sides, and, as far as...

The great battle which is to arrest rebellion, or to make it a power in the land, is no longer distant or doubtful. McDowell has completed ...

After breakfast. Leaving head-quarters, I went across to General Mansfield's, and was going up-stairs, when the General* himself, a whi...

I went up to General Scott's quarters, and saw some of his staff — young men, some of whom knew nothing of soldiers, not even the enfor...

I hired a horse at a livery stable, and rode out to Arlington Heights, at the other side of the Potomac, where the Federal army is encampe...

We hear to-day that a battle has taken place near Manassas, and that Lee has taken some 9000 prisoners and many wagons. At 3 p.m. there was...

No authentic information of a battle near Manassas has been received at the War Department, although it is certain there has been some heav...

No battle had occurred in Northern Virginia up to 10 o'clock yesterday morning, although there is a constant stream of prisoners being ...

Mouth Of Antietam Creek, 79th Regiment, Sept. 28th, 1862. My dear Mother: I have been sitting smoking my pipe by moonlight, pleas...

I shall not soon forget the events of the night of this day.   Our news from Chattanooga was more hopeful – but it was evident that Rosecr...

We have nothing from the West to-day. But it is believed that Hooker is retiring toward Manassas — that fatal field — where another (and th...