Bright and beautiful. Rev. Mr. Dashiell called, after services. The prayer for the President was omitted, by a previous understanding. Rev...

Raining. I was startled in bed by the sound of cannon from the new southside fort again. I suppose another hundred guns were fired; and I le...

Raining. Long trains of "supply" and "ammunition" wagons have been rolling past our dwelling all the morning, indicati...

Bright and cool. Gen. Weitzel and his corps having been ordered away, Major Gen. Ord has succeeded to the command at Richmond, and his cor...

Yesterday windy, to-day bright and calm. It appears that the day of the death of President Lincoln was appointed for illuminations and rej...

Newberry.—The wagon trip across country was glorious! I, the invalid, was made comfortable on a cotton mattress, spread on the body of the w...

On the twelfth we arrive at Lowell, and while here we receive the first news of Lee's surrender to General Grant. Sherman's grand ar...

This morning Sherman's great army bow their heads in mournful silence over the startling news of the assassination. While we write we re...

I suppose the end is near, for there is no more hope for the South to gain her independence. On the 10th of this month we were told by an of...

At day-dawn a salute of several guns was fired. The first discharge proclaimed, as well as words could have done, the capture of Lee and his...

HEADQUARTERS ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES,                        April 9 , 1865. General R. E. LEE, Commanding C. S. Army: Your n...

Head-quarters Armies Of The United states ,           April 9, 1865—4:30 P. M. Hon. Edwin M. Stanton , Secretary of War: General ...

Spend a pleasant day, have a skiff ride, boys fishing a great deal, plenty of eels in the creek, the train gone in with 3 wounded of the 91...

Rained last night & thought myself quite fortunate in having procured enough pieces of Reb tents to make a tent large enough to hold Te...

No marching orders yet this morning & as our teams had all been called for during the night & sent back to the landing for supplies...

Orders to clean up and prepare for a parade in town to celebrate the surrender of General Lee, and the capture of Richmond. The parade to t...

The firing of heavy field guns at midnight aroused everybody. Great rejoicing when we learned that General Lee has surrendered to our Grant...

Boys plowing in old house field. We are needing rain. Everything looks pleasant, but the state of our country is very gloomy. General Lee h...

We started at 8 a. m. and marched five miles, all the way through one continuous swamp. News came to us this forenoon that General Lee ha...

New York , April 11, 1865. . . . I hope the President will walk very, very warily in coming to his new proclamation. I do not blame Lee...