February 28, 1865. High water still keeps us here. We will probably get off to-morrow. It is thought we will cross the Great Peedee at Che...

RICHMOND, May 2 , 1864 . THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA: You are assembled under cir...

Blacksburg, nine miles, through a finely cultivated country; constant pursuit of mounted videttes. We caught Colonel Linkus, formerly of [t...

Late last night the President told General Scott to send Captain Taylor back to the Confederate lines, and he was accordingly escorted to A...

Near Falmouth , Nov. 22nd, 1862. My dear Mother: We are still overlooking the city of Fredericksburg, which the enemy has not evacuat...

Kept watch over Davenport. About midnight scout went out. Got a tent from warehouse. Boys got plenty of tobacco from warehouse. Many stores...

Camp near Point Pleasant, Mo., March 26, 1862. It is, to-day, very much warmer. I'm altogether too hot to be comfortable in my shir...

New Madrid, “by Jingo,” March 14, 1863. Night before last we received four heavy guns front Cairo and two or three of these infantry re...

To-night I went over to McClellan’s quarters with the Tycoon and Seward. Lander was with us part of the way. Lander was gasconading a littl...

Our distress about Gibbes has been somewhat relieved by good news from Jimmy. The jolliest sailor letter from him came this morning, dated ...

Got the order at midnight to start at three A. M. It made a wild picture in the dark morning, the camp fires blazing high, surrounded by da...

Ground frozen; sun came out bright and warm, speedily thawing all snow. Company C and four wagons carry all the “plunder” of the company an...

We were so distressed by the false position in which we would be placed by a Federal sentinel, that we did not know what course to pursue. ...

The cry is “Ho! for Greenwell!” Very probably this day week will see us there. I don't want to go. If we were at peace, and were to spe...

Camp Near Washington, September 4, 1862. My dear sister: I received your two last letters yesterday. Just as I had finished my last...

HDQRS. DEP'T NORTHEASTERN VIRGINIA, Fairfax Court-House, July 18 , 1861 . It is with the deepest mortification the general comman...

Near Centreville , July 19th, 1861. My dear Mother: I am happy to write you of my continued health and good spirits. We had an advent...

No. 1. Report of Col. Charles R. Lowell, jr., Second Massachusetts Cavalry. HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY CAMP, August 12 , 1863 . COL...

December 5, 1864 The weather continues very fine and really warm of days, though the nights are provocative of blankets — weather, law!...