After weeks of anxious waiting for the orders and the completing of the rolls, on the ninth day of July, 1865, the Seventh Illinois Veteran ...

Louisville, Ky. We did not go to Suffolk as I anticipated. Third Division went in our stead, while we took another direction, and in eight d...

Left Camp Woodsonville, Ky., on our first march or counter-march, for two months all but two days remaining in this camp. Getting marching o...

Left Pittsburgh for Louisville, being ten days in Camp Wilkins, getting equipped and fitted out. Went on board the "Silver Wave" s...

PADUCAH, KY.   On Saturday morning about five o'clock we were ordered to be ready to march in twenty-five minutes. We soon learned our d...

WASHINGTON, January 22, 1850. MY DEAR SIR,—I received your favor of the 15th, and I previously received other favors. I do not write often...

ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 23, 1860. We are having a cold raw day and I avail myself of it to do a good deal of indoor work. I was out for some hour...

MARIETTA, Ohio, May 14, 1865. DEAR MOTHER:— Having business on this end of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, I came on this far to meet Luc...

This morning we are on the Ohio, and it is not long until we join the fleet that came before us from the Cumberland. Presently we make a tu...

This morning we receive orders to pack up and move back to Fort Holt. We cross the creek on an old flat-boat bridge. The roads are terrible....

Sunday morning we are busily engaged packing up to leave the fort. Steamers are numerous in this vicinity now. Every day troops are passing ...

The regiment takes passage on board the steamer City of Memphis, for parts unknown. Being nearly all day loading the camp and garrison equip...

From Cairo, on the seventeenth of [July], the regiment is marched up the Ohio river as far as Mound City, where it is quartered in a large ...

CAMP IN THE FIELD, NEAR CHEWALLA, TENN.,       June 10, 1862. Lieutenant-Governor B. Stanton, Columbus Ohio; SIR:   I am not sur...

Another clear and beautiful day. Read “ A New Atmosphere .” Game of whist. Passed the Cumberland and Tennessee in the night. The riding in ...

Steamboat Victress, Ohio River , July 22, 1863. Dear Uncle : — We have been after Morgan for a week. The Twenty-third was in all the fi...

At daylight, found Morgan at Buffington Island. He was here attacked by General Judah's cavalry and the gunboats. Not much fighting by ...

CAMDEN STATION,            Baltimore, Md., September 27 , 1863 . (Received 11 . 50 a.m.) Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War: ...

Gen. Beauregard telegraphs that preparations should be made to withstand a bombardment at Savannah, and authority is asked, at the instance...

PRINCETON, Gibson COUNTY, INDIANA, Feb. 18, 1851. To WM. STILL: — The plan is to go to Canada, on the Wabash, opposite Detroit. There ...