Put my leg on this morning, not very comfortable yet Three years ago to-day, Ball's Bluff. Wrote Dr. J. Monroe, 560 Hudson St., New Yor...

Prisoners' Hospital, Danville, Va. , August 5, 1864. Dear Mother , — I will write a few lines in the hope that they may reach you...

Washington , June 14, 1864. Your kind letter I found here on Sunday last when I returned from Baltimore, where I passed last week very...

We went to see Mrs. Breckinridge, who is here with her husband. Then we paid our respects to Mrs. Lee. Her room was like an industrial scho...

Camp Causten , Aug. 22d, 1861. My dear Cousin Lou: What a pleasant thing it is to live, and how I do enjoy it here on the banks of th...

General Jackson is performing prodigies of valor in the Valley; he has met the forces of Fremont and Shields, and whipped them in detail. T...

Lieut. Henne, accompanied by his wife and Mr. Holm, arrived yesterday afternoon, on the Sucker State from St. Louis.   Lt. H.’s wound is he...

CAIRO, Man 28. – The river is still rising.   Six feet more will sweep over Fort Holt. All kinds of reports are in circulation this eve...