A coolish, cloudy day. Wrote letters to Mother and Lucy. Nothing definite from the battlefield. Rumors of good and bad. Many complaints of ...

Camp Green Meadows , August 12, 1862. Dear Mother : — I received your good letter of the 2d the day before yesterday. On same day recei...

Camp Green Meadows , August 10, 1862. Dearest Lute : — All your names are sweet. “Lu” is good; I always think of the girls at Platt’s s...

Am planning an expedition to go to Salt Well and destroy it; also to catch old Crump if he is at home. Jacobs, Company G, a scout, went up ...

Camp Green Meadows , July 29, 1862. Dear Mother : — I received a letter from you dated the 17th July — one from William dated 22d July,...

Received letters from Mother, June 3 and July 17, and from Platt, July 22. Platt says Governor Tod will not appoint men now in the field be...

Flat Top Mountain , July 10, 1862. Dear Mother : — I think you would enjoy being here. We have a fine cool breeze during the day; an ex...

. . . I wrote this morning a cheerful letter to Mother. I think often these days of the sad loss six years ago; my dear, dear sister, — so ...

Camp On Flat Top Mountain , June 15, 1862. Dear Mother : — It is a beautiful Sunday morning. We are on the summit of a range of mountai...

Camp Flat Top Mountain , May 24, 1862. Dear Mother : — I have written you twice this month, but am not sure as to your getting my lette...

Camp, Mouth Of East River, Giles County, Virginia, May 15, 1862. Dear Mother : — We have marched a great many miles through this moun...

Camp Near Beckley's , Easter Sunday, April 20, 1862. Dearest: — We left Raleigh the day before yesterday and came here intending t...

Still rain! — Read Bulwer's “Strange Story.” One idea I get: “We have an instinctive longing for a future existence”; ergo, there is a ...

Camp Hayes , April 6, 1862. Dear Mother : — . . . We are to move southward before this will reach you, and before you will hear from me...

Camp Hayes, Raleigh, Virginia , April 2, 1862. Dear Mother : — I received your letter yesterday, just one day after it was written. Ver...

Raleigh, Virginia , March 22, 1862. Dear Mother : — . . . We are in the midst of one of the storms so common in this mountain region. W...

Still snowing. I write home and to Mother this morning. Captain R. B. Foley, of Mercer County signs himself Captain of Confederate C...

Cincinnati , February 22, 1862. Dear Mother : — I am ready to start back to Virginia on the first steamer for the Kanawha River. I expe...

Delaware, February 14, 1862. Friday morning. Dearest Lucy : — I reached here last night. Mother, Mrs. Wasson, and Sophia, all well and...

Steamboat Dunleith, Ohio River. — A bright cold winter day; a good sail down the Ohio. Banks full. Beautiful river. Reached home as the...