Camp near Richmond, Va.,           June 29, 1862. I was correct in my last letter to you when I predicted that the great battle had commen...

Near Hanover, C. H., Va., May 14, 1865. Only made nine miles to-day on account of the Pamunky river here being bad. We camp to-night in th...

Reported fighting near Richmond. SOURCE: Louis Leon,  Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier , p. 7

Heard firing at Richmond. We are eight miles from there, and in reserve. SOURCE: Louis Leon,  Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier , ...

A telegram this morning advises me of the death of General R. C. Hale, the brother of Mrs. Welles, at Reedsville in the County of Mifflin, ...

. . . I wrote this morning a cheerful letter to Mother. I think often these days of the sad loss six years ago; my dear, dear sister, — so ...

Camp Jones. — A fine breezy day on this mountain top. Bathed three miles from here in Glade Creek. I find this sitting still or advancing a...

Camp Jones, Flat Top. — The warmest day of the season. The men are building great bowers over their company streets, giving them roomy and ...

Flat Top Mountain , July 6, 1862. Dearest : — Sunday afternoon about 4 P. M. — hotter than ever. I have just finished reading your lett...

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

A fine, warm day. I rode with Avery and an escort of twelve dragoons under Captain Harrison (a Union doctor of Monroe County), to look for ...

Flat Top. — A fine day. No demonstrations in camp except a National salute and a little drunkenness. Quietness of the Sabbath reigned. ...

Camp Jones. — A fine bright day. General Cox is trying to get our army transferred to General Pope's command in eastern Virginia. ...

Camp Jones. — Rained all night; weather cold. Water must again be abundant. Gradually cleared off about 3 or 4 P. M. Dispatches stat...

Last night was bitter cold, and this morning there was ice on my wash-stand, within five feet of the fire. Is this the “sunny South” the No...

Vienna , August 31, 1862. My Dear Holmes : Bare, bare, bare of news, events, objects of the slightest interest to you or any one else,...

Legation of the United States, Vienna, August 26, 1862. My Darling Little Mary : I am writing to you a mere apology for a letter. I w...

Jackson and Ewell and Stuart are after Pope, but I learn they are not allowed to attempt any enterprise for some weeks yet. Fatal error, I ...

The people are too jubilant, I fear, over our recent successes near the city. A great many skulkers from the army are seen daily in the str...

Lee does not follow up his blows on the whipped enemy, and some sage critics censure him for it. But he knows that the fatal blow has been ...