Nothing definite from Lee. I fear his little campaign from the Rapidan to Bull Run was not a glorious one, although Meade did run to the fo...

There is trouble in the Conscription Bureau. Col. Preston, the new superintendent, finds it no bed of roses, made for him by Lieut.-Col. La...

Camp at Ray's Mills, Arkansas, Dec. 1, 1862. My Dear Friends: I guess you wonder a little why you don't hear from your soldie...

Went over to see secesh but they had gone. Shattuck went on detail as chief of commissary. Capt. Seward said I must make out morning report...

On the march at 7 a. m. Left the river and passed through a forest five miles coming out on a plain or open prairie near Fort DeRussey. We ...

Heavy skirmishing all day with cavalry, artillery and infantry. Afternoon preparations for a general engagement. Squadrons wheeling into li...

Breakfasted and under way at 5 A. M. Passed through Rose Hill, a very pretty little town. Hugh Watson and I went ahead and got apples, wate...

In the morning there was a great scare about Quantrell's band. Reported near Montebello, 40 miles east, preparing for a raid against Fo...

Up town all day. Issued rations. Body guard went out on expedition for Quantrell. Failed. Orders to return to Kansas City. "General&qu...

Went down and saw Brownell and the other wounded boys. All getting along well. Guarded against Quantrell. The boys, about two hundred, sadd...

Continued our journey and reached Kansas City a little after noon. Arrested two men pretending to be secessionists — drunk. Encamped out on...

ST. LOUIS, March 29. – From the mail agent of the Pacific Railroad intelligence has been received of a spirited skirmish which took place o...

KANSAS CITY, MO., March 10. – [Quantrill’s] band entered Asbury town on the 7 th , and killed five men and stole fifteen or twenty horses....

Colonel Fitz Henry Warren, one of the most distinguished citizens of Iowa, commanded the First regiment of cavalry raised in Iowa for the wa...

ST. LOUIS, March 29. A special dispatch to the Chicago Journal from the mail agent on the Pacific railroad states that intelligence has be...

Quantrel’s band entered Amboy, Kansas on the 7 th , killed 5 men and stole 15 or 20 horses. A letter from Santa Fe, 3d inst., with a posts...

Quantrell is the name of a depredator in Kansas who, at the head of some thirty men armed with Sharpe’s rifles and navy revolvers, has made ...

Company G. James Danforth Thompson, son of Captain Isaac K. and Emily D. Thompson, is a native of Fredonia, Chautauqua county, New York, and...

. . . the brigand Quantrell’s band in Western Missouri, was recently arrested and tried before a military commission on charge of having com...

St. Louis, July 13. – The Democrat learns from Fort Leavenworth that Platte City, Missouri, is occupied by 200 bushwhackers, who have been j...