After eating our scanty breakfast of hard-tack and coffee, the bugle is sounded and we saddle up and are on our way, taking the road towards...

CONFIDENTIAL.] SAINT LOUIS, MO .,  [ December 2 , ] 1861 . Maj. Gen. GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN, Commander-in- Chief, Washington, D.C.: ...

After remaining in Camp at Mound City, Illinois, a few days, we proceeded down the Ohio as far as Cairo, where again the regiment goes into...

Brig. General Prentiss, and Colonels Oglesby and Paine, visit the camp of the Seventh, addressing the men upon the subject of re-enlisting....

CAMP IN THE FIELD, NEAR CHEWALLA, TENN.,       June 10, 1862. Lieutenant-Governor B. Stanton, Columbus Ohio; SIR:   I am not sur...

An active man would soon go mad if he were confined in Cairo. A mudbank stretching along the course of a muddy river is not attractive to a...

Verily I would be sooner in the Coptic Cairo, narrow streeted, dark bazaared, many flied, much vexed by donkeys and by overland route passe...

When I awoke this morning and, gazing out of my little window on the regiments parading on the level below me, after an arduous struggle to...

It is probable the landlord of the Gayoso House was a strong Secessionist, and resolved, therefore, to make the most out of a neutral custo...

Col. Baylor, of Arizona, has been heard from again. He confesses that he issued the order to slaughter the Apaches in cold blood, and says ...

Cairo.   Hot! You don't know what that word means. I feel that I have always been ignorant of its true meaning till this week, but am p...

Cairo.  We number now about 60 and have 25 days in which to fill up to 100. Two hundred and fifty of our regiment of three-months’ men hav...