It is said we will remain here for a few days. All is quiet this morning. Our camp is at the foot of Lookout Mountain, in the Chattanooga va...

The weather is clear and bright again ; but, oh, how dark and somber the faces of the croakers! The following dispatches have been receiv...

May 28, 1864, 9 a. m. Still in rifle pits. We have been treated to a terrific storm of shells, spherical case, and solid shot. The batt...

Scottsboro, Ala., March 6, 1864. By marching 21 miles on the railroad ties we reached “home” yesterday, after an absence of 24 days, in...

Mud Creek Cove, Jackson County, Ala. December 8, 1863. I was at Stevenson yesterday and put a letter in the office for you, but with ...

Tullahoma, Tenn. , November 28, 1863. We are in the midst of exciting news from the front, yet we have had no particulars. It is eviden...

[ The day of the battle of Atlanta ] We have heard the loud booming of cannon all day. Mr. Ward [the overseer] went over to the burial...

Dalton , Jan. 4th, 1864. My dear Wigfall: It is necessary to recruit this army promptly to enable it to hold its ground against Grant...

Anxiety pervades.   Lee is fighting Meade.   Misery is everywhere.   Bragg is falling back before Grant. 1   Longstreet, the soldiers call ...

The Chattanooga Campaign Edited by Steven E. Woodworth & Charles D. Grear Sometimes an event is so complex that a single narrat...

SAMUEL H. M. BYERS was born in Pulaski, Pennsylvania, in 1838. Coming to Iowa in 1851 with his father he was educated in the schools of Osk...

LANCASTER, OHIO, Dec. 29, 1863. My Dear Brother:   . . . I hear you have gone on to New York, and therefore I must go off without ...

Chattanooga, Tennessee, December 2, 1863. FOR the last three weeks I have not only been busy, but have had company occupying my room,...

JOHN WHITTEN was born at Business Corner, Van Buren county, Iowa, Aug. 1, 1842; he died at Farmington, Iowa, Sept. 7,1902. He remained at ho...

D. A. GRIFFITH - The retired farmers living in Winterset are highly esteemed and contribute not a little to the advancement of the communit...

The ten companies composing the Seventeenth Iowa Infantry were ordered into, quarters at Keokuk, Iowa, between the dates January 25 and Marc...

The Tenth regiment was ordered into quarters by the Governor in the latter part ol August, 1861. Nine full companies had assembled at the de...