Clear and fine. Roll call at 5½ A. M. as usual-Breakfast at 6½ Squad drill &c. more activity will be observed this week in drilling than...

Weather fine & pleasant,—with indications of rain Duties of the morning as usual—much rejoicing through out the camp—though no open demo...

On the afternoon of October 23rd we left Columbus by boat on an expedition, destination unknown until we reached New Madrid, Missouri. The f...

SAINT LOUIS, February 7 , 1862 . Maj. Gen. GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN: Gunboats and cavalry ordered up the Tennessee River to destroy bridg...

NASHVILLE, TENN., March 15 , 1862 . Major-General HALLECK: Your dispatch of yesterday received this morning. Undoubtedly we should...

Camp Shiloh, Apl. 14, 1862 Dearest Ellen, The day before yesterday I heard Halleck had arrived at the River and upon making a short t...

Near Farmington, Miss., May 28, 1862 We moved up here this morning under the hottest sun and over the dustiest roads, and I then helped...

Headquarters 7th Illinois Cavalry, In a very fine House, Point Pleasant, Mo., April 7 , 1862. If this isn’t fine your brother is in...

April 5, 1862, — One of our boys has just returned from Madrid and says he saw our gunboat Cairo there. She slipped by the batteries at Isl...

Camp, near Point Pleasant, Mo., April 4, 1862. I received your last letter within three days after it was mailed, and praised Uncle Sam...

New Madrid, “by Jingo,” March 14, 1863. Night before last we received four heavy guns front Cairo and two or three of these infantry re...

Near New Madrid, Mo. , March 6, 1862. What oceans of fun we are having here. Here goes for all of it to date, and I'll be lucky if ...

Headquarters, 3d Battalion, 7th Illinois Cavalry, February 3, 1862. I am pretty sure that we will start on a scout to-morrow that wil...

Bird's Point , November 20, 1861 Part of Pitt's (Col. W. Pitt Kellogg's) cavalry are here. We are glad to see them as it wi...

Bird's Point , November 13, 1861. Home once more. We all call this home now. Just as we landed last night the Iowa 7th was forming ...

Cairo.   Hot! You don't know what that word means. I feel that I have always been ignorant of its true meaning till this week, but am p...

My war archon is beset for commissions, and somebody says for every one given, you make one ingrate and a thousand enemies. As I entere...

Washington , March 15, 1862. I beg you to receive my thanks for your kind remembrance of me as shown by the valuable rifle sent me by C...

CAIRO, May 18. News from Pittsburg Landing is unimportant. After a picket skirmish on our right lasting nearly two days, the rebels...

The extinguished George W. Jones, once Senator from Iowa, more recently Minister to Bogota, and still later a resident of Fort Warren, with...