This morning our Brigade Surgeon ordered me to leave the hospital for a few days, on account of my fatigue and prostration. He said that a r...

During these two days the regiment has been busily engaged in moving its camp about four miles. The new camp is to be called Camp Vanderwerk...

Colonel ——— to-day complains that I have too much force employed in the hospital, and says that he will cut it down. The regulations allow t...

On my arrival here, I found our tents pitched on ploughed ground, in a swale. The bottoms of the tents were very damp, and the mud in the st...

CENTREVILLE, August 1 , 1863 . (Received 9 . 40 a.m.) SIR: Colonel Lowell goes to Washington to-day, to report, as ordered. He retu...

Centreville , Aug. 12, '63. I am very sorry that the conscription is being made such a farce — somebody must be neglecting his duty...

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

Centreville, July 19, 7 P. M. All Thursday and Friday, we lay by the roadside, booted and saddled, — waiting for orders. Yesterday, abo...

WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, D.C., June 18 , 1862 . Major-General McCLELLAN: Yours of to-day making it probable that Jackson has bee...

CAMP AT CATLETT'S STATION, Friday, April 25, 1862. Since I wrote, the whole of King’s division has gone down to Falmouth, opposite ...

Camp near Orange Court House, August 17, 1862. Here I am in a tent instead of my comfortable quarters at Dabbs's 1 . The tent, howe...