After weeks of anxious waiting for the orders and the completing of the rolls, on the ninth day of July, 1865, the Seventh Illinois Veteran ...

Corraling our horses and mules and leaving them in charge of the non-veterans, the regiment on the 8th of January, with drums beating, color...

The train carrying the Seventh is now near Springfield; soon we expect to meet a grateful people, who have already been informed of the hour...

Columbus, O . Jany. 9. [ 61. ] My Dear Sir . Your note came when I was in Springfield at Mr. Lincoln's request. I arrived after you...

Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, Jackson, Tenn., February 18, 1863. The prominent rumor to-day, and one in which there seems to be co...

Cairo. This is the twilight of our first day here. We started from Peoria last Wednesday at 11 a. m. amid such a scene as I never saw befor...

Executive Mansion, March 19, 1861. MY DEAR MRS. RIDGELY: An enterprising genius has just opened a little collection of Japanese cur...

Weather fine. Real spring. All is quiet in camp. The body of the martyr President is being carried across the country to his home town, Spr...

Tremont House, Gage, Bro. & Drake, Proprietors Chicago, 10 P M May 13 th 1860 Hon A Lincoln My Dear Sir Since your Sprin...

FELLOW-CITIZENS: Having become a candidate for the honorable office of one of your Representatives in the next General Assembly of this Sta...

Galena, May 30th. 1861. Dear Father: I have now been home nearly a week, but return to Springfield to-day. I have tendered my ser...

Springfield, [Illinois] April 29th, 1861. DEAR SISTER: I CAME to this place several days ago, fully expecting to find a letter he...