it raind and haild and snowed and sleated and friezed and done a little of all that was bad And me and James Colmond went to Fredreksburg an...

We returned to camps a little after dark at the same place we started from the morning before. It was a cold, rainy day. We learned that q...

COLUMBIA, KY., November 29 , 1861 .           (Received November 30, 1861.) General GEORGE H. THOMAS: I received a dispatch before day th...

(Private) New Orleans , November 28th, 1862. Dear Sir : I have frequently conversed with Gen'l. Butler about an expedition to Tex...

(Private and unofficial) New Orleans , Oct. 10th, 1862. Dear Sir : I have received your official letter of Sept. 22nd. enclosing le...

Memphis, Tenn. , October 10, 1863, 4 p. m. Have just got here; bored to death. Had to march around three sandbars between Helena and M...

Feb. 8, 1861 The proposition which I had the honor to submit to you fully in person is herewith presented in writing. Lt. Hall and ...

Navy Department,        24 October, 1863. Sir, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 23rd instant, encl...

7:30 A. M. — Colonel Comly started from Coal's Mouth down [the] river at daylight. 8:30 A. M. — Dispatch from Colonel Comly at R...

Camp New Madrid, Mo., April 12, 1862. I have the extreme happiness to inform you that there is at last a hope of my dating the next let...

Near Point Pleasant, Mo ., March 18, '62. You see we are creeping along down the river surely if the motions are a little slow. Thi...

Several men from Alabama arrived here to-day with their backs beaten blue. We caught another spy last night. The drums rolled last night at...

Sleep all A. M. At 2 P. M. Ordnance depot in the city blows up with a terrific explosion. Killing & wonding 1000 people, & destroyi...

Passed Helena, Ark., and reached Memphis at 8 p. m. Staid all night on board the steamboat. Next day we went ashore and camped two miles in...