With but short intervals, Slocum's guns have been heard all day. About three o'clock in the evening we hear to our right a sullen ro...

CAMP SHAW, BEAUFORT, S. C., October 29, 1863. It is a pretty severe official joke that General [Quincy A.] Gilmore is just now playing off...

November 3. The guns at Charleston have kept up a great booming all through the day; more constant and frequent than since those memorable...

Last night a very pleasant meeting of Ohio men at Mr. James C. Wetmore's. Chief Justice Chase, both Senators, Judge Swayne, many of the ...

Early this morning we are off for Corinth, moving over the old familiar highway. Oh! how dusty; the rising clouds almost hide the sun. We ar...

Beaufort, S. C, Dec. 28, 1863. Alpheus Hardy , Treasurer: Dear Sir ,—Enclosed please find my draft for one hundred dollars, for the ...

Gen. Lee's cavalry are picking up some prisoners, several hundreds having already been sent to Richmond. It is said the advance of his ...

Camp White , August 25, 1863. Dear Uncle :— . . . I keep my cavalry moving as much as possible. The infantry has little to do. The pris...

We have nothing further from Charleston, except that Beauregard threatened retaliation (how ?) if Gilmore repeated the offense, against hum...

By direction of Gen. G. I went to the prisoners confined in the guard-house, read to them the Proclamation, and said I had come to inform t...

. . . . . Yesterday I had a number of copies of the Proclamation posted through the town. The few citizens gathered around, the lettered re...

Met the President, Stanton, and Halleck at the War Department. Fox was with me. Neither Du Pont nor General Hunter has answered the Preside...

Jacksonville. . . . . We came to Jacksonville, gay with flags and busy with shipping at noon. I landed and found no General, no staff, no ...

Saturday night I went on board the Ben Deford with the General to visit Folly and Morris Islands. Col. J——, Major B——, Capt. R—— and F—— we...

On arriving at Hilton Head yesterday afternoon I found that Gen. Gilmore’s Headquarters were now at Hilton Head. I went on shore, met Col. ...

“Sic transit Gloria!” Got orders for good old Donaldsonville, La. As usual, I got my share of the dirty work. The regiment had been paid of...

Beaufort, S. C. April 15th, 1862. My dear Mother: Not wishing you to be exposed to disappointment, I must write a few brief lines by...

Centreville , Sept. 16, '63. I had occasion to see Stanton to-day, — and introduced [the subject of] coloured prisoners, of course....

Willard's Hotel, Washington, Sunday noon, August 2d. I found, when I reported in the evening, that I was ordered to take command ...

The steamer Atlantic, from Port Royal 14th, has arrived.   Among the passengers is Gen. Gilmore, who commanded at the reduction of Fort Pul...