With Ellie to the Artists’ “Reception” in Dodworth’s Rooms; a vast crowd. Discovered Mrs. D. C. Murray and Mrs. John Weeks, General Dix, Wen...

GENERAL ORDERS No. 7.} HDQRS. DISTRICT OF VICKSBURG,           Vicksburg, Miss., May 18, 1864. The attention of the officers of this comma...

This morning, at seven o'clock, our tents were struck, and, with General McClellan and staff in advance, we moved to Middle Fork bridge....

J. S. Anderson 1 shot and killed W. K. Natcher at Chestnut Mound. The latter was drunk. They were both members of Harris' Company. Abou...

  No. 192. Report of Capt. Henry Hegnet, Twelfth U.S. Colored Troops, of operations December 15, 1864-January 21, 1865. HDQRS. TWELFTH REG...

Looked over the report of the committee of Congress which went to Kansas in 1856 to investigate the troubles there. I did this in order to ...

I breakfasted with Mr. Bigelow this morning, to meet General McDowell, who commands the army of the Potomac, now so soon to move. He came i...

Marienberg, Boppart , Sept. 7, '50. My Dear Sumner : — Here I am at last where I ought to have been two months ago. This is a most ...

Our best scout, Corporal Jacobs, and Private Fenchard, Company F, were murdered last night at Morris' mill on Gauley River, twelve mile...

I have, may it please the Court, a few words to say. In the first place, I deny everything but what I have all along admitted, — the des...

Heaven knows what I have not been through with since I saw you — dust, dirt, dyspepsia, hotels, railroads, prairies, Western steamboats, We...

We have only two black men with us now; one of these has a wife and seven children in slavery. I sometimes feel as though I could not make ...

Camp White , April 5, 1863. Dearest : — The weather is good, our camp dry, and everybody happy. Joe has got a sail rigged on his large ...

Lagrange, Tenn., July 1, 1863. Everything moves quietly here. No more alarms or anything else to "bust" the confounded monoto...

July 19, 1862. I don't know whether I have any business sending such a document as I enclose, but guess its no difference. Two spie...

Osawatomie, Kansas , Jan. 11, 1859. Dear Children, All , — I have but a moment in which to tell you that I am in middling health; but h...

Trading Post, Kansas , January, 1859. Gentlemen , — You will greatly oblige a humble friend by allowing the use of your columns while I...

One thousand new prisoners came to-day from near Petersburg, Va. They give us encouraging news as to the termination of the spring campaign...

Missouri Line (on Kansas Side) , July 20, 1858. F. B. Sanborn, Esq., And Friends At Boston And WorcesTer , — I am here with abou...

Bird's Point, Mo. , January 13, 1862. After all the excitement and promise we have had of a trip into Dixie, we are still here in ...