Commencement of the battles of the Seven Pines and Fair Oaks. At two o'clock P. M., the battle began on the south side of the Chickahomi...

A Review today at Meridian Hill, Gen l  Caseys Division about 20,000 men (none of his Division have yet left). Troops are leaving on board S...

Very pleasant today. Streets quite dry & dusty. A great movement of troops. A stream of men and Gov t  Wagons have been going down 14 th...

Fine day. Several regiments have passed up Pennsylvania Avenue during the day; have been before the board; am very much pleased with its ap...

It has been a pleasant spring day; reported to General Silas Casey this morning; will be examined tomorrow; sat at Bradey's this aftern...

Weather fine, no wind or clouds and but little mud; had our regimental monthly inspection at 10 a. m.; have written to Major Fostor, Chief ...

Warm and comfortable; mud drying up finely; application to go to Washington to report to General Silas Casey returned this forenoon, disapp...

Weather warm and pleasant the fore part of the day, but towards night it hazed up; probably will rain to-morrow; had a long and tiresome br...

Arrived in camp about dark last night and found the regiment in a mud hole without quarters fit to live in. How white men could be content ...

Weather fine but very chilly. About eight inches of snow fell last night. Major C. G. Chandler is division officer of the day. A review of...

The wind has blown furiously from the southeast all day. It's by far the most disagreeable day of the winter; commenced snowing about 5...

A dull and miserable day, but no rain; have been studying very hard in the second volume of tactics. No one has been in this evening save L...

The ambulances are coming in with our wounded. They report that all the enemy's strong defenses were stormed, just as we could perceive...

Headquarters Army Of Potomac November 10, 1864 They have been singularly niggardly to us about election returns; but we have reli...

Camp , May 29, 1863, 11 p. M. Your Capri and Sorrento have brought back my Campagna and my Jungfrau and my Paestum, and again the seaso...

Camp E. Of Capitol , 9 P. M., May 20, 1863. I wrote yesterday that General Casey 1 had ordered a review for to-day. In my baby innocen...

CAMP NEAR ALEXANDRIA, August 31 , 1862 – 2 . 30 p.m. Major Haller is at Fairfax Station with my provost and headquarters guard and ...

FIELD OF BATTLE, June 1 , 1862 – 12 o'clo ck. Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War: We have had a desperate battle, in which ...