We started at sunrise as on the preceding morning. The wind blew quite strong, making it difficult for some of the smaller boats to keep up....

SEMINARY, Saturday, April 21, 1860. DEAR GENERAL: Pursuant to your emphatic order (the wit of which has not got through St. Ange's hea...

GUARD DUTY. Our guard duty is just outside the town. There are three stations: one on the south side next the asylum, one at the college o...

A TRIP INTO THE COUNTRY.  After nearly two months of scrubbing and cleaning, with new caps and pants, the 25th regiment stands in column of ...

Mount Sterling, Ky ., Septr. 10th 1848. Dear Sir : As Kentucky is to go for General Taylor in November next, I feel anxious to know wha...

Jocko's hut was not across the river as I supposed and wrote yesterday, but on the same side we were on. At about ten o'clock last ...

We are now three miles from yesterday's resting place, and near the Miller plantation. Soon as dark last night we went to the negro hut...

This morning got up cold and stiff; not enough covering. Pushed off in the direction pointed out by the darkey of yesterday. Have come in t...

Pass Port Hudson in the night also Battan Rouge, all day passing through the richest contry I ever saw. fine plantations splendid houses ...

At five o'clock this morning, having been awakened an hour earlier by a wonderful chorus of riotous mocking-birds, my old negro attenda...

My good friend the Consul was up early to see me off; and we drove together to the steamer J. L. Cotten. The people were going to mass as w...

Headquarters Second Mass. Inf'y, RoBeRTSVille, S. C, January 31, 1865. Since my last letter we have pushed farther into this mis...

Wrote in the heat of the day, enlivened by my neighbor, a wonderful mocking-bird, whose songs and imitations would make his fortune in any ...

General H é bert is a good-looking creole.* He was a West-Pointer, and served in the old army, but afterwards became a wealthy sugar-plante...

Started again by stage for Munroe at 4.30 A.M. My companions were, the Mississippi planter, a mad dentist from New Orleans (called, by cour...

The church is a long way off, only available by a boat and then a drive in a carriage. In the morning a child brings in my water and boots ...