A. M. to commissary for stores. The fort is laid out today, & details made to work on it. At noon was detailed for picket to report imme...

ON THE RAPIDAN,           MAY 20TH, 1863. MY PRECIOUS WIFE: I am at last safely encamped with the Fourth Texas Regiment in a beautiful grov...

CAMP ON THE RAPIDAN,           MAY 25TH, 1863. MY PRECIOUS WIFE: I have written to you by every opportunity I have had since I left home, a...

Night verry high wind with incessant heavy rain, our canvas tents shelter us well from the storm but the storm of wind gave us some uneasine...

Fresh calls for shoemakers. A few weak ones give their names but are not accepted. Negroes have begun additional fortifications working all ...

The policy of enlisting negroes renders it harder for prisoners. So does the emancipation proclamation. The government having enlisted negro...

Morning with major Boydston to Ft Morgan to go to Ft Gaines No boat. All through fort. Near the pier & within 400 yds. of Ft. a pole whi...

A cold rain continued during the night. What would the good folks at home say could they see this camp this cool, wet morning—men lying in t...

The scouting party sent out this morning were conveyed by wagons six miles up the valley, and were to take to the mountains, half a mile bey...

At 7 o'clock, another man had been shot, lay near the creek. Brisk showers in the night; the day is steadily hot. Rumor that 4,000 are t...

Cloudy, cold, and dismal. We have no news except from the North, whence we learn Lieut. Beall, one of our Canada raiders, has been hung; tha...

Cloudy; rained yesterday and last night. We have no important news from South Carolina, except the falling back toward Columbia of our tro...

To-day Lieutenants Sullivan and Rowett are sent with a flag of truce into North Alabama, to negotiate an exchange for our men who were captu...

Calm and warm; clouds and sunshine, without wind. All quiet below. It is reported that one of our picket boats in the James River deserted...

HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE TENN., Vicksburg, Miss., July 8 , 1863 . Maj. Gen. J. B. MCPHERSON, Comdg. Seventeenth Army Corps: GENERAL: There a...

VICKSBURG, MISS., July 8, 1863. Maj. Gen. J. B. MCPHERSON, Comdg. Seventeenth Army Corps: GENERAL: There apparently being some misunderst...

CAMP HASTINGS, NEAR CUMBERLAND, February 22, 1865. DEAR MOTHER:— I suppose you have heard of the kidnapping of General Crook and General K...

CAMP RUSSELL, VIRGINIA, December 18, 1864. Sunday morning before breakfast. DEAR MOTHER: — We have as yet received no orders as to winter qu...

But little at the Cabinet of special importance. Governor Dennison, the new Postmaster-General, for the first time took his seat. Late in ...

The President came to see me pretty early this morning in relation to the exchange of prisoners. It had troubled him through the night. I wa...