Our Parrot gun was ordered to the south side of the James River about a week since, and we, as yet, have heard nothing from it. The Second C...

Our two howitzers go to the front. Considerable fighting was going on during the night. Our four Parrott guns ready to march at a minute...

At three o'clock P. М., orders came for our Parrott guns to advance to within a mile of the enemy; when, getting in sight of the rebels,...

Bill Boggs and myself secured a pass this morning early and started down to the canal. We followed the river bank until we were about one mi...

The drivers arrived with the horses. In the afternoon, our James' rifle guns were returned to the Washington Arsenal, and those of Batte...

Considerable picket firing. Captain Owen opened with his twenty-pound Parrott guns, from Edwards Ferry, on Fort Beauregard. Kept up firing f...

Battery G, Captain Owen, Rhode Island, (four twenty-pound Parrott guns and two howitzers,) arrived at Poolesville. SOURCE: Theodore Reicha...

Batteries A and B were ordered to report near Conrad's Ferry, where we arrived before sunrise, it being only five miles from our camp. W...

Had a grand review of all the troops stationed at Yorktown to-day, numbering five or six thousand. Magruder is a magnificent looking soldier...

HEADQUARTERS 25TH WISCONSIN VOLUNTEER INFANTRY,           Snyder's Bluff, Miss., July 1, 1863. SIR: In compliance with orders dated Head...

Head Quarters, Army in the Field Camp Near Fort Donelson, Feb.y 15th 1862 GEN. G. W. CULLUM CHIIEF OF STAFF, DEPT. OF THE MO. CAIRO...

Dispatches from Charleston, yesterday, brought the melancholy intelligence that Fort Sumter is but little more than a pile of rubbish. The ...

Last night Lieutenant Austin came into camp with thirty-three men and two guns; a ten-pound Parrott and a three-inch Rebel gun captured by ...

EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, May 1 , 1862 . Major-General McCLELLAN: Your call for Parrott guns from Washington alarms me, chiefl...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, Camp Winfield Scott, May 1 , 1862 — 9 . 30 p.m. His Excellency the PRESIDENT, Washington, D.C.: ...

The enemy's fire was getting pretty warm. They had the range perfectly; most of the shell burst in or over the works; but the men were ...

Mail was to leave the camp at 12 today; sat down to write a letter before I was ½ through was detailed to take charge of a squad of 30 men ...

Working parties return at daylight at which time the ball opens again The Enemy were reinforcing last night from Mobile, a little bolder ...

Rested tolerably last night, At 8. A M. The batteries open on the Forts & keep up a vigorous shelling for 3 hours. P. M. the felled tim...