I heard Charles Sumner on the Rebellion: my first sight and hearing of the great anti-slavery statesman. He was greeted with tremendous appl...

We received our socks, pants, drawers and shoes. Did not get our guns. We encamped in tents, ate our supper just at dark. SOURCE: Lewis C....

Hard work until to-day, when we were sent out to lay a plank road. While at work General Lee and his daughter rode by us, and soon after a c...