On the above day and date commenced one of the great battles of the "War Between the States," generally known as the "Battle ...

No variation in the daily routine of duties to day One of our men Thomas Onwhistle severely reprimanded for disrespect towards the Col. At D...

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...