First division, and one section of our battery and two sections of Hazlett's Battery, went across the Potomac as far as Kearneysville. W...

I introduce the following letter to a friend, as sufficiently explicit as to the occurrences since the last date: CHAIN BRIDGE, VA., Sept....

On the high land overlooking the Potomac, about six or seven miles above the Navy Yard at Washington, we have, since our arrival here, throw...

We are now on the “heaving sea and the bounding wave.” We were aroused yesterday morning at four o'clock, ordered to prepare breakfast a...

Louisville, Ky. We did not go to Suffolk as I anticipated. Third Division went in our stead, while we took another direction, and in eight d...

The following sweet morsel of her fierce defiance and blustering braggadocio appears in the Philadelphia Transcript , under the head of “Cru...

Went into battery on the banks of the Potomac. In the mean time the first brigade of the first division went across the river to reconnoitre...

October 3d, 1862. We have moved camp three miles, and are now five miles above Harper's Ferry, on the banks of the Potomac. The days a...

At dawn of day, contrary to our expectations, the enemy did not open on us again. Having had no food since the day before, some of us went t...

A bright morning greeted our eyes. The clear sky promised a pleasant day. We discovered an orchard near by, which furnished us with a variet...

We have been three days in camp, and have fully recovered from the fatigues of our long journey. Drill is the order of the day, as it is the...

Left here this morning and passed through Fredericksburg. Crossed the Rappahannock on pontoon bridges, and got to Belle Plain on the Potomac...

was sloppy day And I hird today that peas was made between the North and South and I hird that our men sunk a vessel down on the Potomac las...

was cloudy and cool but no rain And thir was hevy canonading down on the Potomac to day SOURCE: Bartlett Yancey Malone, The Diary of Bartl...

Rebel cavalry plainly to be seen on the other side of the Potomac. SOURCE: Theodore Reichardt,  Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode I...

Bright and beautiful. Indian summer apparently. All quiet below—but it is anticipated by some that a battle will occur to-day, or in a day...

WASHINGTON, D. C., April 15, 1866. DEAR UNCLE:— I was at Mount Vernon yesterday for the first time. Washington was a capital judge of fine...

WASHINGTON, D. C., April 15, 1866. MY DARLING:—I went to Mount Vernon yesterday. It is a beautiful spot. The extensive views of the Potoma...

Clear and pleasant. We are beginning to get authentic accounts of the operations on Thursday; and yet, from the newspaper publications, we...

Orders read out to-day from our father, R. E. Lee, that we would fight the enemy once more on their own soil, as they were now in our front....