March  14. Mr. Webster has not a favorable response from any Northern man of any influence. It is hard to believe that a man who has been ...

Heavy skirmishing all day with cavalry, artillery and infantry. Afternoon preparations for a general engagement. Squadrons wheeling into li...

No officer or soldier under the rank of a general is allowed into Chambersburg without a special order from General Lee, which he is very c...

Exhausted as I was, I managed to sleep wonderfully well last night. We breakfasted at a place called Hallettsville at 7 A.M., and changed c...

We started at 5 A.M., and reached a hamlet called “Casa Blanca” at 6. We procured a kid, some Indian corn, and two fowls in this neighbourh...

I crossed the river at 9 A.M., and got a carriage at the Mexican side to take my baggage and myself to the Consulate at Matamoros. The driv...

Shady Hill , April 10,1861. . . . Truly this is a time when one may well be glad to be on the spot to study our public affairs. Our tro...