The sanctity of the day was well observed throughout the camp, and increased by an impressive sermon, preached by Bishop Clark. In the after...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE TENNESSEE,           Near Vicksburg, July 7, 1863. Maj. Gen. J. B. MCPHERSON,           Commanding Seventeen...

I RECEIVE AN APPOINTMENT. The ward next me on the left is a colored one, and contains from 60 to 80 men, according to recruits and drafts....

A CONFLICT OF AUTHORITY. There is among army officers a constant jealousy and strife for promotion and rank, watching and looking after ea...

PICKET DUTY. I fear I was not appreciated on the fort, as I was superseded after my first day's effort and have since been assigned to...

I GET AIRRESTED. Not caring to trouble the captain all the time for passes I have got in the habit of going about town on my sagacity, ...

RUNAWAY — $200 Reward will be given if taken in the state, and $500 if taken out of the state. Run away, my negro boy JOE, sometimes ...

A rain a few days ago gave us a rise of two or three feet in the Kanawha River. It is falling again, but is raining today again with prospe...

New Castle county, ss., State of Delaware — To Wm. R. Lynam, Sheriff of said county. —— Davis (Negro) is delivered to your custody for furt...

New Castle county, ss., the-State of Delaware to Wm. R. Lynam, and to the Sheriff or keeper of the Common Jail of said county, “Whereas —— ...

WASHINGTON, May 27 , 1865 . Maj. Gen. W. T. SHERMAN, Commanding Military Division of the Mississippi: General Augur has just been ...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, New Orleans, May 23 , 1862 . Brigadier-General PHELPS, Commanding Camp Parapet: GENERAL: You...

Talk about marching but no orders. During day studied some and wrote two letters. Finished "Barnaby Rudge." Gave a good many boys...

We have intelligence to-day, derived from a New York paper of the 18th inst., that the “insurrection” in New York had subsided, under the m...

RICHMOND, July 3d, 1857. Permit the Bearer Elijah to pass to and from my FACTORY, to Frederick Williams, In the Vallie , for one month,...

Provost Marshal's Office, Waterford, Miss., December 12, '62. From captain of the provost guard, I have been changed to provo...

NAT. AMERICAN OFFICE, Richmond, July 20th, 1857. Permit Charles to pass and repass from this office to the residence of Rev. B. Manly...

The enemy have abandoned the vicinity of Fredericksburg, falling back across the river, and probably retiring toward Alexandria, or else th...

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

After morning work, Sergts. Drake and Arnold and Capt. Tod and I rode down to Alton. Very pleasant. Drake is a good boy. Seems to have a he...