Battalion Drill as usual this afternoon. Lt. William taken sick with the measles to day nothing of importance transpiring to day. SOURCE: ...

SHERWOOD FOREST, CHARLES CITY CO., April 25, 1861. In these times you must write often, if only a few words. I have no letters to-day from...

It is now between two and three months since our regiment went into camp. We have had nearly three hundred cases of measles, with about as m...

RICHMOND, April 17, 1 1861. Well, my dearest one, Virginia has severed her connection with the Northern hive of abolitionists, and takes...

On the 19th of June, 1861, the 5th Regiment of Wisconsin Vols., being partially organized, went into camp at Madison, Wis. Here it remained ...

Sixteen of my sick have so far recovered that I sent them to-day to join their regiment at Kalorama Heights, near Washington. I have quite r...

Our faces were considerably elongated this morning by the report that John Bland, of our company, was taking the small-pox. As John circulat...

We have had no excitement since we left Vicksburg. Nothing has transpired here to cause a "yell" even. We have lived out the allot...

Yesterday we moved back into civilization, and took up quarters in a swamp near the broad Mississippi. Have a good camping-ground for this c...

It was now very cold, and the ground was frozen hard all day, in consequence of which our wagon train did not get as far as Jamestown. In pl...

In the saddle early that morning, our battalion arrived at Jacksborough late in the afternoon (about twenty-two miles). Zollicoffer had left...

HEADQUARTERS CAMP, ALCORN,           Hopkinsville, Ky., October 29, 1861. Col. W. W. MACKALL,           Assistant Adjutant-General, &c....

Several of Allison's Company who had been home returned to camp, brother Will (W. C. Hancock) and J. C. McAdoo, who were sick of the mea...

Seventy-five of our battalions set out from Camp Schuyler to go to Knoxville, about forty miles east, with some prisoners. They returned the...

 Passing down Cumberland Mountain, the three companies bivouacked at Camp McGinnis, on Wolf River, some ten miles north of Jamestown. As I...

HEADQUARTERS FIFTEENTH ARMY CORPS,           Walnut Hill, June 2, 1863. Major-General GRANT,           Present: DEAR GENERAL: I would most...

Hon. William H. Lamport went down to Virginia to see his son and found that he had just died in the hospital from measles and pneumonia. The...

No. 179. Report of Brig. Gen. Charles Cruft, U. S. Army, commanding Provisional Division, of operations November 29, 1864—January 13,...