a very pritty day And our Regiment left Ashland for Yolktown (Yorktown) And our rought was down by Hanover Coathouse The Second day we sti...

We got away from the open field at 12 M., and went two miles out of town, and camped in the woods. We met the Bethel regiment to-day. I met ...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, May 4 . (Received 12 m.) Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War: Yorktown is in our possession. ...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, May 4 , 1862 — 9 a.m. (Received 4.15 p.m.) Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War: We have the r...

Headquarters 2d Brigade. My dear Mother: The “Atlantic” has just arrived bringing me two letters from which I judge all is going on w...

Near Farmington, Miss., May 28, 1862 We moved up here this morning under the hottest sun and over the dustiest roads, and I then helped...

Portland , November 13, 1862. My Dear Sir , — I have received your letter, and also the newspaper puff, for which I am probably indebte...

Still raining. No further knowledge of movements. Lieutenant Reichenbach's party that went to Columbus with prisoners, returned this ev...

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

Camp Near Yorktown, April 27, 1862. My dear sister: I have nothing to write especially interesting. The siege is progressing as fav...

Before Yorktown, Va ., April 25, 1862. C. L. Bartlett, Esq.: — My dear Sir, — Yesterday morning the Twentieth Regiment was detaile...

Mine is a painful, self-imposed task: but why write when I have nothing to chronicle but disaster? 1 So I read instead: First, Consuelo, t...

November 11, 1864 The McClellan procession might have spared their tapers, as he has gone up, poor Mac, a victim to his friends! His h...

Charles Lawrence Peirson. who died at Boston, Jan. 23, 1920, was born in Salem, Jan. 15, 1834, the son of Dr. Abel Lawrence Peirson and Har...

Private   Head-Quarters, Army of the Potomac Camp Winfield Scott, April 20 1862 His Excellency The   President My dear Sir I ...

CAMP WINFIELD SCOTT, Near Yorktown,   April 14 [ 1862 ] – 9 p.m. ABRAHAM LINCOLN: I have seen General Franklin, and beg to than...

CAMP AT MANASSAS, Sunday, April 13. My last letter was written to you from Alexandria, on the evening of the 10th instant. The next mor...

From the N. Y. Times, Tuesday. One of our correspondents at Yorktown adds a postscript to his letter, dated on Saturday, May 3, at noon...

YORKTOWN EVACUATED. The Works in Possession of the Federal Troops. – Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette , Davenport, Iowa, Tu...

WASHINGTON, Sunday, May 4 – Noon. The following report just received from Fort Monroe, says Yorktown was evacuated last night.   We now...