Sunday morning in Baltimore, and a stiller or more quiet place I never saw. No sounds are heard, no people or carriages are seen in the str...

Verily I would be sooner in the Coptic Cairo, narrow streeted, dark bazaared, many flied, much vexed by donkeys and by overland route passe...

This day will be remembered by the First Louisiana by the event of raising the flag on the new fort. It was now about completed. Six large ...

cantonment Hicks , Near Frederick, January 13, 1861. “Si le combat est pr é vu, la troupe se met en grande tenue; elle doit cette polit...

Camp Hicks , December 9, 1861, near Frederick, Maryland. To sit in one's tent in the sunshine, and look out through the grove upon ...

To-day I devoted to packing up such things as I did not require, and sending them to New York. I received a characteristic note from Genera...

charlestown, Va ., July 18, 1861. From Bunker Hill to Charlestown may not seem a long way to a Massachusetts man, but in Virginia it is...

The fort was historic ground. The flag flying over it caused Mr. Key to write the song “The Star-spangled Banner,” in 1814. Many British sh...

The contemplated battle at Corinth received importance from the fact, that it is generally believed it will be the last general engagement ...