Severe cold since yesterday. The Potomac froze to-day. A steam tug coming up the river, was a rare sight to both sides. SOURCE: Theodore R...

Rienzi.   Went out as No. 6. Was a little unwell. Infantry preparing to move. Bad news from the Potomac. SOURCE: Jenkin Lloyd Jones,  An A...

The centre section, commanded by Lieutenant Jeffrey Hassard, relieved the section of Battery B, on picket at Conrad's Ferry. Our detachm...

On the morning of the 10th we move towards Richmond. For some cause unknown we do not enter the city, but are ordered into camp three miles ...

On the 24th of May we cross the long bridge spanning the Potomac and enter Washington City and pass up Pennsylvania Avenue, and by the White...

As a description of the appearance of the country in which we were settled, I here introduce a letter written at this date to a friend: CA...

Raining; warm. The Northern papers announce the capture of Wilmington. No doubt the city has fallen, although the sapient dignitaries of thi...

Arrived at Edwards Ferry by six o'clock A. M. Two thousand men were already landed on the Virginia shore, opposite the ferry, others wer...

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...