Our trap is sprung at last. For three long, weary days and sleepless nights we patiently awaited the coming of that "flanking column...

Our part in this expedition is done, and we are on our way back to Knoxville. Wilcox's "baby brigade," as our boys call them, ...

Left camp at Smith's Fork, DeKalb Co., Tenn., and marched five miles from this camp to Orbenstown, bringing with us many of the Union fa...

The Fair Ground, on which we are encamped, is simply a clearing in the wood, without buildings, fence or shade. But it is a pleasant place, ...

Awakened by the guard at 4 a. m.; at daylight go on the street receiving a small day's ration, the fourth issue since our capture. Rain ...

About 10 a. m., the train having come back, we got on for Lynchburg. I had a flat car next to the engine, exposed to the sun, smoke and cind...

My throat and lungs sore this morning, caused by heat and smoke of yesterday and drenching dew and chill of last night. Get rations today fo...

Colonel Marrow and I dined with Colonel Smith, member of the Virginia Legislature. He professes to be a Union man, but his sympathies are ev...

This morning Colonel Rowett moves with the command towards Florence, leaving Company H, Captain Ring, near Cedar and Cox's Islands to gu...

A cold north wind is blowing all day. This evening the regiment comes in from its expedition—cold and hungry, but we see success beaming fro...

March 14, Evening. A curious incident occurred this morning which gave me a full hundred (from both regiments) sick and wounded to examine...

HEADQUARTERS, Knoxville, November 26 , 1861 . Hon. J.P. BENJAMIN,           Secretary of War: SIR: I have the honor to report that I arri...

Our brigade moved back from Anderson County to the vicinity of Jacksborough. McNairy's Battalion camped six miles south of town on the C...

MORGAN COUNTY, TENNESSEE, NEAR MONTGOMERY, October 22 , 1861 . (Received November 4.) Brigadier-General THOMAS: SIR: I reached here at ...

NEAR KINGSTON, ROANE COUNTY, TENNESSEE,           October 27 , 1861 . (Received November 4.) General THOMAS: SIR: I am now within a few ...

HEADQUARTERS,           Knoxville, November 20 , 1861 . SIR: The rebellion in East Tennessee has been put down in some of the counties, a...

WASHINGTON, December 3, 1861. Brig. Gen. D.C. BUELL, Louisville: MY DEAR BUELL: I inclose two letters, which were referred to me by the P...

KNOXVILLE, TENN., November 17, 1861. Lieutenant-Colonel MACKALL, Bowling Green, Ky.: SIR: Having blockaded the roads over the mountains n...

BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS,           Wartburg, one mile from Montgomery, November 20, 1861. Lieutenant-Colonel MACKALL,           Assistant Adju...

BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS,           Jamestown, Tenn., Nov . 22, 1861. General S. Cooper,           Adjutant and Inspector-General, Richmond: S...