WAR DEPARTMENT, May 1 , 1862 . Major-General BANKS: The President directs that you fall back with the force under your immediate co...

New York May 26. 62 My Dear Sir In the present embarrassed situation of our affairs, I feel it to be a duty to make the following sug...

The night was very bad — thunder and lightning, torrents of rain — the road knee-deep in mud and water, and often blocked up with waggons “...

camp Near Edinburg, Virginia , April 2, 1862. I promised not to write you till our monotony ceased. It has done so; yet the story is a ...

Camp Four Miles Beyond Strasburg , March 28, 1862. I had just finished my letter yesterday, and started to mail it, when I was turned b...

camp Bivouac, Near Strasburg , March 27, 1862. I must write you a line from our hillside-wooded bivouac this bright morning. On T...

winchester, Virginia , March 25, 1862. A blue March morning, and I have just returned from the battle-field. A sight to forget. I quest...

The “military situation” seems very much the same. Some cheering intimations from Georgia. Hood has made movements on Sherman's flank, ...

Gen. Lee's plan works like a charm! Although I have daily orders from Mr. Randolph to send persons beyond our lines, yet the precaution...

There is lightning in the Northwest, and the deep thunder of avenging guns is heard at Washington! Gen. Jackson, sent thither by Gen. Lee, ...

The enemy repulsed at Vicksburg, though it is still in a state of siege. General Johnston is there, and we hope that the best means will be...

This morning we had the gratification of a short visit from General Lee. He called and breakfasted with us, while the other passengers in t...

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

April 28, 1862. Yesterday, having just completed the usual Sunday inspection, we received an order in hot haste to get ready at once w...

Camp “Misery,” Two Miles South Of Newmarket , April 21, 1862. The name of our camp did not originate at headquarters, but it is the m...

Washington, D. C , December 5, 1862. To his Excellency, John A. Andrew, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Governor:...

The papers to-day give no account of our army in Maryland. General Loring has been successful in the Kanawha Valley, in driving the enemy, ...

Good news at last. Four letters were received last night by way of Ashland. We learn that we certainly whipped the Yankees on the 31st of ...

General Jackson is performing prodigies of valor in the Valley; he has met the forces of Fremont and Shields, and whipped them in detail. T...

Sad news from the Valley. The brave, gallant, dashing General Ashby has fallen! He was killed yesterday, in a vigorous attack made by the e...