About the twenty-fifth of January, Major Johnson, with his detachment, leaves Bonniventure, and joins the regiment at Fort Brown. Receiving ...

In the evening we cross over into the Palmetto State and go into camp three miles from the river; we doubt if ever an army encountered more ...

GRAHAMVILLE, December 8 , 1864 . [General BRAXTON BRAGG:] The enemy are still moving on toward Savannah, obstructing the roads in their r...

Snowed two inches last night. Cloudy and damp this morning. Guns were heard down the river last night at a late hour. Perhaps it was nothi...

Clear, and warm as summer almost. Another dispatch from Bragg: "AUGUSTA, November 28th, 1864.—On the 26th instant, the enemy starte...

Bright and pleasant. The firing was from our gun-boats and two batteries, on Gen. Butler's canal to turn the channel of the river. O...

[W]e proceeded up the Savannah River, and, on reaching the city, were provided with carriages to examine it and the environs. Savannah has s...

Five miles from James' Point, Canoochie River,  December 8, 1864.  Another “Shermanism." Our 3d and 4th Divisions crossed the Ogeec...

Navy Department March 6” 1862. My dear Commodore: I had a long talk with McClellan to-day to see if he had any objections to givin...

Unofficial Flag Ship 'Wabash'                               Port Royal Harbor S.C.                        January 11 l862 ...

[Copy] Confidential Office of Chief Engineer Ex Corps Hilton Head S.C. Dec. 30" 1861 Brig, Genl" T. W. Sherman Commandin...

May 29, 1864, 4 p. m. Have been in the rifle pits all day. We're now expecting a charge from the Rebels, that is, our division com...

Every day since last writing I have continued to improve, and no end to my appetite. Now walk a trifle with the aid of crutches Coming cool...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, Hilton Head, Port Royal; S.C., April 3 , 1862 . Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War: SIR: ...

Argyle Island, Ga ., December 18, 1864. An opportunity offers to send a few lines home. We are now on an island in the Savannah river...

Beaufort, S. C. Jan. 26th, 1862. My dear Mother: Another Sunday has come around, time slips quietly by — still nothing striking ha...

The First Division of the Seventeenth Army Corps embarked this afternoon on an unknown expedition. 1 They had to march down to the coast b...

This is a cloudy, cool day and a lonesome Christmas. We are on one-third rations now and poor prospects of getting more soon. We still have...

SAVANNAH, 23d February, 1862. My Dear Son: I have received your letter of the 12th and am glad you have returned safely from the Ra...