Centreville , July 28. I am very sorry that I did not more than half bid Rob good-bye that Tuesday. It is a little thing, but I wish it...

Centreville , July 26, '63. I cannot help having a strong hope that Beauregard is mistaken in supposing Rob Shaw killed. If he is ...

Camp On Seneca Creek , July 5, 1863. Yesterday our teamsters brought rumours of the battle of July 3d and of our immense success, and a...

God bless Abraham Lincoln. He has issued a proclamation emancipating all slaves on the 1st of January, 1863, in any State then in rebellion...

Letter from Rob giving a description of a cavalry charge on two of their companies, before he reached Winchester, and then of their march t...

Rob and Hal 1 both safe. The Boston Transcript says: “Captain Carey telegraphs for publication the following account of the regiment: Capt...

Rob started to go back today at 7 A.M. and now his visit seems almost like a dream. A thing I had been longing for for eight months passed ...

Letters today from Rob for Mother and me, dated 11th and 16th instant. He seems rather blue, owing, I suppose, to his doing nothing, and th...

7th October, '61. Well, and how goes the day in your heart? Mrs. Shaw had a few lines from Mrs. Fremont the other day. It is fine t...

A year since Lincoln's Proclamation, in which he says that the object of the 75,000 men was to repossess the forts of the United States...

A year ago today the first shot was fired at Fort Sumter. One year of war! and here we are with 700,000 men under arms, great battles fough...

Dear old Scott has resigned! Touching scene, war-worn veteran, farewell speech, surrender of command, etc., etc. Mother and Father feel rat...

Mother and Howard went to hear Mr. Beecher, and talking of Fremont, etc., etc., he told her she must have trust in God. “But I do,” she ans...

Gen. Fremont is to be allowed by the Administration to carry out his own plans unmolested and he is going to take the field himself, which ...

Elmwood, Aug. 28, 1863. My dear Sarah, — Not a day has passed since I heard the dreadful news 1 that I have not thought tenderly of yo...

St. Helena Island , July 6. We don't know with any certainty what is going on in the North, but can't believe Lee will get far...

March 25. If the success of the Fifty-fourth gives you so much pleasure, I shall have no difficulty in giving you good news of it whene...

March 17, 1863. The regiment continues to flourish. Yesterday we had some officers out to take a look at the men. They all went away ve...

near Culpepeb Court-house, Virginia , August 12, 1862. Dearest Mother , — . . . I was in different parts of the field with General Gord...

guard-tent, Second Regiment, Camp Hicks, Near Frederick, Md., 3½ A. M., Dec. 25, 1861. Dearest Mother , — It is Christmas morning, an...