Another hot day. How hot I don't know, but it wilted me. I tumbled down, completely used up while at drill. Several others did the same....

Holmes called the roll this morning and we hear no more about being shot for mutiny. It may possibly come later, but from all I can see and ...

Headquarters Stevens' Div. July 25th, 1862. My dear Mother: Your letter has just reached me. I have only to say that it has lo...

Spend most of this day writing have a little difficulty in co. col Mackey orders me to tie one of my men for refusing to clean his gun whic...

A long hiatus! The nights have been too busy for jottings. . . . . We went over to Seward’s, found him comfortably slippered, and af...

Maryland, Camp Causten , Aug. 17th, 1861. My dear Mother: This has been a busy and painful week for the officers of the Highland Re...

Sunday 1 Night, 12 P. M. I am sleepless, my dear Miles, and must write. If you should be sleepless also, it is not improbable but that...

FORT CORCORAN, August 19, 1861. . . . Among my regiments are three who claim to have been enlisted only for three months, but the Secre...

WASHINGTON, D. C., August 17, 1861. . . . I have not undressed of a night since Bull Run, and the volunteers will not allow of sleep ...

A gentleman arrived here to-day, directly from Gen. McClellans’s headquarters, and reports that our forces have greatly the advantage of the...