The Federals, under the command of General Grant, have at last achieved a brilliant success, having captured Fort Donnelson after hard fight...

Our corps returned to Coal Harbor by four o'clock P. M. Seven hundred prisoners were brought in. SOURCE: Theodore Reichardt,  Diary of...

No. 19. Reports of Lieut. Col. Samuel N. Yeoman, Ninetieth Ohio Infantry, of operations December 15-30, 1864. HDQRS. NINETIETH REGIMENT OH...

No. 18. Report of Maj. Edward G. Mathey, Eighty-first Indiana Infantry, of operations December 15-30, 1864. HEADQUARTERS EIGHTY-FIRST IN...

At 12. last night the Jonnies made a charge out of their forts on the skirmish line, draw it in on the left where the 7th Vermont was statio...

Camp Cairo Illinois.   Glorious news this morning, Ft. Donelson is taken, Fifteen Thousand prisoners and an immense quantity of arms and amm...

Prisoner taken at Donelson are continually arriving Lt. Williams detailed with a squad of 50 men on fatigue duty in town A salute of 10 Guns...

ON THE RAPIDAN,           MAY 20TH, 1863. MY PRECIOUS WIFE: I am at last safely encamped with the Fourth Texas Regiment in a beautiful grov...

CAMP ON THE RAPIDAN,           MAY 25TH, 1863. MY PRECIOUS WIFE: I have written to you by every opportunity I have had since I left home, a...

CAMP ON THE RAPIDAN,           MAY 30TH, 1863. MY PRECIOUS WIFE: I write you a few lines by an Irishman who has just gotten a discharge fro...

On guard. Stood picket in a large cotton field which contains five or six hundred acres of cotton, unpicked. I went back to the cane brake a...

Enroute. Took up the line of march through mud and rain early. In the morning the rain that was continually falling made the road almost unp...

We have pitched our tents in rear of our guns and still occupy the same position. Our trap was set for a band of guerillas who have been ope...

We camped within a few miles of Malvern Hill last night, and to-day our forces reoccupied the hill without any opposition, capturing some se...

Night verry high wind with incessant heavy rain, our canvas tents shelter us well from the storm but the storm of wind gave us some uneasine...

The sick carried early to the gates but not received; ordered to be brought at 2 p. m. Doctors have got it into their heads that some system...

Recent improvements in camp are timbers laid across the swamp on the west side north of the stream for 20 rods, this will help escape the fi...

On the morning of the 3rd when the rebels hung the flag of truce from their fort on the Jackson road, word soon passed along our whole line ...

Moscow. Our boys returned in the afternoon having been out to Collierville, eighteen miles distant, burned a bridge, came upon a party of re...

The story of yesterday's fight is all  bosh . There were no two hundred prisoners taken—no fifteen killed—no fight—not a rebel seen! Mun...