In the morning I took a drive about the city, which is loosely built in detached houses over a very pretty undulating country covered with ...

Nothing new from the armies — all quiet. At home we are in statu quo, except that we have had a very agreeable accession to our family part...

Headquarters 79TH Regt. Camp Advance, Co. K. Virginia, 1861. Dear Mother: A most delightful moonlight forbids my retiring at the...

Early next morning [the 16th], soon after dawn, I crossed the Cape Fear River, on which Wilmington is situated, by a steam ferry-boat. On t...

Up at dawn. Crossed by ferry to Portsmouth, and arrived at railway station, which was at no place in particular, in a street down which the...

. . . the secessionists of Middletown, Delaware, hoisted a Confederate flag on a pole which had been erected by the Unionists, and that earl...