Nephew of James Mercer Garnett (q. v.), and Robert Selden Garnett (q. v.); born in Virginia, in 1819; graduated from the United States Milit...

May 15. We get reports from rebel sources that Hooker has got into Richmond, that Stonewall Jackson was killed and Lee taken prisoner. Wer...

Hospital near Hamilton's Crossing, Va . ,           June 12, 1863. Our corps is lying in line of battle in the trenches, and has been ...

Camp near Rappahannock River, Va.,           April 5, 1863. The weather has been more disagreeable since the beginning of April than at an...

Camp near Richmond, Va . ,           June 26, 1862. I returned to camp on Monday because we expected to have a fight. Our brigade was orde...

Camp near Richmond, Va.,           June 29, 1862. I was correct in my last letter to you when I predicted that the great battle had commen...

Near Orange Court House, Va.,           August 12, 1862. While we are resting a little I will endeavor to write you a few lines. We have b...

Orange County, Va.,           August 18, 1862. On leaving our last camp we first went back five miles in a northerly direction to Orange C...

Lexington, Rockbridge County , June 12 (Sunday), 1864. Dearest : — I just hear that a mail goes tomorrow. We captured this town after an...

From three miles west of Millboro to one mile beyond Goshen; about thirteen to fourteen miles. Rained last night. Our march today impeded by...

HEADQUARTERS FIFTEENTH ARMY CORPS,                         Camp on Big Black, Miss., September 17 , 1863 . Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK, G...

Peterboro , May 20th, 1863. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher: My Dear Sir : I have read in the Independent your column on the late “Stonewall”...

Headquarters Delaware Department, Wilmington, Del. , July 7th, 1863. Dear, dear Cousin Lou: I said I would write you so soon as the...

“Independence Day.” Fortunate to escape this great national festival in the large cities of the Union where it is celebrated with many days...

Camp Near Falmouth, Va. Dec. 22nd, 1862. My dear Mother: Since the late disastrous affair at Fredericksburg, as before, I look in v...

Camp White , May 17, 1863. Dear Uncle :— . . . We are in no danger here. We have built a tolerably good fort which we can hold against ...

Headquarters 1st Div. Reno's Command, Near Alexandria , Sept. 4th, 1862. Dear Mother: Once more, after a lapse of nearly five w...

WAR DEPARTMENT, May 24 , 1862 — 4 p.m. Major-General FR é MONT, Franklin: You are authorized to purchase the 400 horses or take th...

WAR DEPARTMENT, May 24 , 1862 — 5 p.m. Major-General McDOWELL, Fredericksburg: General Frémont has been ordered by telegraph to ...

Washington , May 25, 1862. Intelligence received this morning shows that General Banks has been attacked in force at Winchester and is ...