Left at 5 this morning, went through Front Royal—seventeen miles to-day. Waded the south and north prongs of the Shenandoah River. We then t...

Left at 5 A.M., marched over part of the Blue Ridge, and crossed the head of the Rappahannock River-eighteen miles to-day. We marched throug...

Grant has gone up to the Shenandoah to see Sheridan. I had advised Porter and Fox to visit Grant on James River, but this prevented, and yes...

[The Diary for the last few months of 1864 is for the most part hardly more than a line a day, entered in a pocket memorandum book, "...

HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION,                 November 27 , 1864 . Bvt. Maj. Gen. WESLEY MERRITT, Commanding First Cavalry D...

CITY POINT, August 16 , 1864 — 1 . 30 p.m.                (Received 6 . 30 a.m. 17 th.) Major-General SHERIDAN, Commanding, &c...

Reveille at 4 A. M. Brigade moved out in advance at 6. Waited at the Shenandoah for the pontoons to come up. Most of our brigade forded. On...

WAR DEPARTMENT, May 24 , 1862 — 5 p.m. Major-General McDOWELL, Fredericksburg: General Frémont has been ordered by telegraph to ...

Marched at 4 o'clock a. m., passed through Snickersville on a narrow stony road, and arrived at Snicker's Gap about noon. We went t...

Harper's Ferry. A fine morning. Early on board train, waiting for it to move. At 8 A. M. the train began to move slowly along the banks...

camp Near Harrisonburg , April 29, 1862. I believe I wrote you a short letter since our arrival here. Written in a northeast storm, per...

The European statesmen, declining intervention in our behalf, have, nevertheless, complimented our President by saying he has, at all event...

Camp Near Edinburg, Virginia , April 4, 1862. We make life musical these hot sunny days with the screeching whir of shells or the sharp...

winchester, Virginia (again), March 24, Monday. I've only a minute in which to send you greeting. Again are we hurried by a forced...

camp Near Winchester, Virginia , March 21, 1862. If you had looked upon our camp at sunrise reveill é , this morning, you would have se...

Charlestown, Virginia , March 8, 1862, Saturday. We are quite at home in Charlestown now. We went into camp on Wednesday. On Thursday I...

Pleasant morning. Detailed for picket duty. Located northeast of town, between the Harper's Ferry Pike and the Shenandoah River, on the...

Cold cloudy morning. Ordered to the east side of the town, to make camp. Shelter tents put up. Picket line established out near the Shenand...

Maryland Heights , September 26, 1862. In my last letter, I wrote that we had orders to march the next morning. Our whole corps was rou...

Camp Near Warrenton, July 12, 1862. Last Sunday our division broke camp, and after a tedious day's march, accomplished only about...