Camp White , April 3, i864. Dear Uncle : — . . . I have spent the last week visiting the five posts between here and Sandy occupied by ...

January 27, 1864. My Dearest Mother : Since I last wrote I have had the pleasure of receiving your kind letter of 28th December. Althou...

Head-quarters, Department of the East, New York City, December 14,1864. General Orders, No. 97: Information having been received a...

December 11, 1864 Weather as before — only a little more so. I suppose they have a good deal such in England. If so, don't want to ...

November 30, 1864 Did you hear how the Hon. Nesmith, whom I have mentioned, discovered the real cause of the defeat at the first Bull R...

Yesterday we had a long tedious march, putting in a hard day. Last night we were glad to drop on the ground for rest and sleep. This is a h...

November 28,1864 Let me see, I had got to Fort Harrison, had I not? Really I got so sleepy last night over the second sheet that I shou...

We started our drove of cattle early this morning and the brigade broke camp at 8 o'clock and followed. We reached Pulaski at 2 o'c...

Head-quarters, Harper's Ferry , Sunday, July 28, 1861. There is so much of drag and so little of incident in my present life that a...

August 8, 1864 “What do you think of filling up with Germans?” you ask. Now, what do you think of a man who has the toothache — a werry...

The supply trains started on ahead for Vicksburg, taking with them about six thousand contrabands and refugees — men, women and children, b...

We remained here in camp all day. A number of foraging parties were sent out and some of them were captured by the rebels, and so did not h...

The quartermaster is sending out large foraging parties today, while the army is preparing to start back toward Vicksburg tomorrow, after d...