I have just heard that my dear nephew, Will’by N., was wounded at Chancellorsville, and that his left leg has been amputated. He is at Mr....

A letter this morning from Sister M., who has returned to her home on the Potomac. She gives me an account of many “excitements” to which t...

RICHMOND. – Yesterday morning my sister M., J. W., and myself, drove up from W. to the depot, seven miles, in a wagon, with four mules. It...

The roar of cannon and musketry has been incessant to-day; now as I sit in the yard it is terrific. I doubt not that a general engagement i...

We have just heard of our success, and that Jackson and Ewell have come from the Valley, and have flanked the enemy on the Chickahominy. Tw...

Firing continues, but lower and lower down. No news from my dear boys. I wish, but dread, to hear. SOURCE: Judith W. McGuire,  Diary...

My boys and nephews safe, God be praised! McClellan in full retreat. C. and M. are sending off a wagon with ice, chickens, bread, eggs, veg...

A beautiful, glorious day, and one which the Yankees expected confidently to spend triumphantly in Richmond. Last Fourth of July old Genera...

I got by chance a Philadelphia paper of the 20th. Very little bragging, but an earnest appeal to their men to be united, to forget that the...

Yankee scouts are very busy around us to-day. They watch this river, and are evidently fearing a flank movement upon them. Wagons passing t...

Dr. T. called to-day, to say that the firing we heard on Friday was from our guns shelling the enemy, to drive them lower down the Chickaho...

Yesterday we heard firing all day — heavy guns in the morning, and musketry during the day, and heavy guns again in the evening. Oh, that w...

Our guard withdrew to-day, and we walked to W., a privilege we had not enjoyed for many days. We received a Richmond Dispatch by undergroun...

Our guard in full force to-day. It is so absurd to see the great fellows on their horses, armed from head to foot, with their faces turned ...

The Yankees have returned upon us. They came this morning early, and caught J. W's horse, which they took off. We can hear nothing of G...

Yesterday we sent letters to the Court-House to be mailed, presuming, as we had not seen an enemy for twenty-four hours, that the coast wou...

Yesterday was the only day for three weeks that we have been free from the hated presence of Yankees[.]   Aaron, whom we sent for Mr. C, wa...

While quietly sitting on the porch yesterday evening, I saw a young man rapidly approaching the house, on foot; at first we took it for gra...

Good news at last. Four letters were received last night by way of Ashland. We learn that we certainly whipped the Yankees on the 31st of ...

Yesterday evening we had another visit from the Lancers: they fed their horses at M's barn, ripping off the planks that the corn might ...