Awakened by the guard at 4 a. m.; at daylight go on the street receiving a small day's ration, the fourth issue since our capture. Rain ...

ALONE AGAIN. Our Brooklyn friends left us the 13th. They were ordered to report at Newport News, and we to remain here to do guard duty. W...

Only three of us at the Cabinet meeting. Speed is attending the Court. The others absent, as usual, without cause, and the course pursued su...

Reported fighting near Richmond. SOURCE: Louis Leon,  Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier , p. 7

Heard firing at Richmond. We are eight miles from there, and in reserve. SOURCE: Louis Leon,  Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier , ...

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 ...

Camp Near Falmouth, Va. Dec. 22nd, 1862. My dear Mother: Since the late disastrous affair at Fredericksburg, as before, I look in v...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, May 4 . (Received 12 m.) Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War: Yorktown is in our possession. ...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, May 4 , 1862 — 9 a.m. (Received 4.15 p.m.) Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War: We have the r...

On the evening of the 25th Fox, who had been frequently telegraphed by Butler to come down to Fort Monroe, determined to go, and asked me t...

Green Meadows. — Captain Drake with Companies H and I returned this morning. The mounted men crossed the ford just above Bluestone on New R...

. . . I wrote this morning a cheerful letter to Mother. I think often these days of the sad loss six years ago; my dear, dear sister, — so ...

Camp Jones. — A fine breezy day on this mountain top. Bathed three miles from here in Glade Creek. I find this sitting still or advancing a...

Camp Jones, Flat Top. — The warmest day of the season. The men are building great bowers over their company streets, giving them roomy and ...

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

Camp Jones, Flat Top Mountain. — . . . It seems on reflection that McClellan has been forced back in seven days — six of them days of fight...

Flat Top. — A fine day. No demonstrations in camp except a National salute and a little drunkenness. Quietness of the Sabbath reigned. ...

Camp Jones. — A fine bright day. General Cox is trying to get our army transferred to General Pope's command in eastern Virginia. ...

Camp Jones. — Rained all night; weather cold. Water must again be abundant. Gradually cleared off about 3 or 4 P. M. Dispatches stat...

Camp Jones. — Cloudy and rainy. Our water on this mountain top is giving out. Avery and I rode six miles towards New River in the rain but ...