Ox Hill, Va.,           September 3, 1862. I was in the battle at Manassas and made several very narrow escapes. I had to go on the field ...

Norwich , Sept. 10th, 1862. Dear Horace: I received your letter on Sunday morning. I am satisfied that you will manage the business i...

Norwich, Conn. September 9th, 1862. My own dear Son: I am half sick, very sad, grieved, and troubled on your account, yet very than...

Headquarters 1st Div. Reno's Command, Near Alexandria , Sept. 4th, 1862. Dear Mother: Once more, after a lapse of nearly five w...

REDOUBT NO. 3, June 25, 1862 — 3 . 15 p.m. The enemy are making a desperate resistance to the advance of our picket lines. Kearny...

camp Near TennallytowN, Maryland , September 5, 1862. I wrote you a hasty scrawl in my hurried visit to Washington, just to assure you ...

Vienna , September 21, 1862. Dearest Little Mary : Your last letters, 1st and 2d September, reached us with promptness, and gave us the...

HARRISON’S LANDING, 4th August, 1862. DEAR PET: I thank you for your kind, long letter. You extend me hope.   You suggest withdrawing m...

General Dix came to see me in relation to the blockade of Norfolk. Says Admiral Lee is extremely rigid, allows no traffic; that the people ...

Early this morning I was at the depot. The superintendent suggested that I should send some one to Weldon in search of the trunk. He proffe...

Headquarters Division, Near Fair Oaks Station , June 5, 1862. My dear cousin: The General asks me to write you a short account of o...

Our victory at Manassas complete; the fight lasted four days. General Kearney was killed in a cavalry fight at Chantilly. Beautiful Chantil...

To-day has been occupied with strategy; but our strategy is of a bloody kind, and even the mere movements have not passed without the soun...

CAMP NEAH PURCELLVILLE, VA., November 3, 1862. We yesterday moved to this place, which for a time placed us in the advance, but to-day ...

ARLINGTON HOUSE, VA., September 3, 1862. We arrived here this morning. Everything now is changed; McClellan's star is again in the ...

Mr. Skinner at breakfast. — Soon after Mr. Hamilton (James A.) came, and we conversed about the condition of things. He said the Committee ...

CAMP OPPOSITE FREDERICKSBURG, June 1, 1862. Your letter of the 29th came to-day, and I should judge from its tenor that the stampede in...

Friday, March 28, 1862. I think I wrote you that on Tuesday we had a grand review of the whole of the First Army Corps. Yesterday we ha...

Times’ Dispatch. WASHINGTON, May 8. The following dispatch is from the commander of a corps in our army at Yorktown Peninsula, to h...

FIELD OF BATTLE, June 1 , 1862 – 12 o'clo ck. Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War: We have had a desperate battle, in which ...