It is said the pickets of the Fourteenth Indiana and the enemy's cavalry came in collision to-day, and that three of the latter were kil...

We had a fine time for a change last night. There was one solitary pudding left over from our Thanksgiving dinner. The boys found out that t...

Newport News is a military post, and is of no importance in any other sense. There were no villages or cities here previous to the war. Now ...

We are looking for the Dutchess County regiment as if their coming was an assured fact, yet it is only a rumor, and even that cannot be trac...

Bird's Point , October 27, 1861. I haven't written for a full week because I really had nothing to write and in fact I have not...

Hugh White cooked for us. Sandy got out of the guardhouse. Hugh cooked first rate. Read and rested. In the evening received a letter from M...

Taps sounded later than usual last night. When the lights were put out we could not sleep for joy, as we were all so happy over the prospec...

Learned and ordered the number of pounds of beef needed, also issued it. Issued rations for the five days' expedition under Doubleday. ...

camp Near Seneca , November 26, 1861. If you are to have another letter from a major commanding, I suppose it had better be written to...

Department Shenandoah, Maryland Heights , August 10, 1861. “How pleasant of Saturday night, when you've tried all the week...

MARYLAND HEIGHTS, DEP’T OF THE SHENANDOAH, July 31, 1861, in Camp. Three letters?! Yes, one from you, one from father, one from C. Bl...

The weather is warm and pleasant and things are growing fine. The order of the day in camp is as follows: Reveille at 4 o'clock, roll c...