BELLE PLAIN, VA., May 13, 1864. On the S. C. boat, pulling up to the shore Government flatboats of horses and cavalry recruits. There a...

This last calamity to the house and family of Mrs. Gibbons (the sacking of her home by the recent riot) presents a fit opportunity for her...

To-day had an incident happen to me; hardly an incident, but a sort of an adventure. When I was nurse on one or two occasions helped the ho...

Have seen many of my old comrades of Andersonville, among whom is my tried friend Sergt. Wm. B. Rowe; were heartily glad to see one another...

24 West 31st Street, New-York , Jan. 18th, 1863. My own dear Son: I hope my letters reach you more regularly than yours do me, for ...

Henry Drake quite bad with abscess on his knee. Rob and I sat up with him. Wrote a line home and to Fannie. SOURCE: Frances Andrews ...

Flat Top Mountain , July 6, 1862. Dearest : — Sunday afternoon about 4 P. M. — hotter than ever. I have just finished reading your lett...

camp Bivouac, Near Strasburg , March 27, 1862. I must write you a line from our hillside-wooded bivouac this bright morning. On T...

No light on our sorrow — still gloomy, dark, and uncertain. I went to-day to the hospital, as was my duty. My dear friend S. T. chee...

Mr. Lincoln has visited our devoted city to-day. His reception was any thing but complimentary. Our people were in nothing rude or disrespe...

Some persons in this beleaguered city seem crazed on the subject of gayety. In the midst of the wounded and dying, the low state of the com...

We attended hospital services yesterday as usual. There are few patients, and none are very ill. On Friday night a most unexpected death to...

The armies around Richmond remain quiet. Butler is digging the canal at “Dutch Gap,” and Grant is fortifying “Fort Harrison” most vigorousl...

I have been much occupied nursing the sick, not only in the hospital, but among our own friends; and a sad, sad week has the last been to u...

General Stuart died of his wounds last night, twenty-four hours after he was shot. He was a member of the Episcopal Church, and expressed t...

My diary has been somewhat neglected, for after looking over commissary accounts for six hours in the day, and attending to home or hospita...

To-day we heard the Rev. Mr. Peterkin, from the text: “Be not weary in well-doing.” It was a delightful sermon, persuasive and encouraging....

A week ago I was called to Camp Jackson to nurse –––, who has been very sick there. The hospital is very extensive, and in beautiful order....

Spent the day at the hospital. Mr. ––– has just received a post chaplaincy from Government, and is assigned to the Officers' Hospital o...

Hospital day. The wounded cheerful and doing well. I read, distributed books, and talked with them. They are always ready to be amused, or ...