At 2 o'clock on the morning of the 17th an order came for the pickets to fall back noiselessly to the trenches, which we did very quietl...

Nothing of interest doing here. The news is not encouraging. Grant has burned Jackson and evacuated the place, falling back toward Vicksburg...

Broke camp today. Left for Oxford on our retreat to where, I don't know, as the rebel General Van Dorn, through the treachery of Colonel...

This morn before day our Army commenced to retreat. I left the Regiment on the Plaza in M. and went out to the end of the Wilkerson pike. Go...

  Newberry , S.  C.           , May 2, 1865 . It was well you left Petersburg when you did, for the very next day (April 2) our extreme ri...

No. 338. Reports of Col. William Gamble, Eighth Illinois Cavalry, commanding First Brigade. HDQRS. FIRST CAVALRY BRIGADE,     June...

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF CAIRO,                        Fort Henry, February 6 , 1862 . Fort Henry is ours. The gunboats silenced the ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 7 , 1863 . Major-General MEADE, Frederick, Md.: I have seen your dispatch to General Couch of 4.40 p.m. Yo...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,              July 10 , 1863 — 1 p.m.            (Received 3 . 10 p.m.) Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK, ...

We were ordered to commence our retrogade movement at 8.30 o'clock, but didn't till about 10 o'clock a. m. As usual our divisio...

Camp Jones, Flat Top Mountain. — . . . It seems on reflection that McClellan has been forced back in seven days — six of them days of fight...

Clear and bracing. Had a very satisfactory inspection on the hill back of General Cox's headquarters. The men were many of them ragged ...

To-day we are all down again. Bragg has retreated from Murfreesborough. It is said he saved his prisoners, captured cannon, etc., but it is...

Camp On Flat Top Mountain , May 20, (Tuesday), 1862. Dearest : — Here we are “back again” — fifty or sixty miles in rear of the advan...

Camp On Flat Top Mountain On Line Between Mercer And Raleigh Counties , May 20, 1862. Dear Uncle : — The last three weeks has been a ...

We have no news to-day — not even a rumor. We are ready for anything that may come. No doubt the assailants of Mobile, Wilmington, or Charl...

Camp on Flat Top Mountain. — Monday, 19th, marched from camp on Bluestone River to this point (yesterday) — a hot dry march — with knapsack...

Camp At Mouth Of East River, Giles County, Virginia , May n, 1862. Dearest : — Since I wrote you last I have lived a great deal. Do y...

Washington, D. C ., September 3, 1862 After an experience of sixteen days here, I am humiliated, exhausted, yet well and determined. ...

Bragg is in full retreat, leaving Kentucky, and racing for Chattanooga — the point of interest now. But Beauregard, from whom was taken the...