Camp near Moss Neck, Va.,           May 9, 1863. On Saturday morning (the 2d inst.) I received an order to ship the wounded to Richmond, s...

July 7, 1864. The shooting still continues in our front, but hear no Rebel artillery. The water here is excellent, and everybody seems...

As Dan Rice used to say in the circus ring: “Here we are again.” Sleep so sound that all the battles in America could not wake me up. Are j...

This evening Seward read to the President a despatch from Cash Clay, in which he discussed the whole field of American politics — European ...

A. M. to commissary for stores. The fort is laid out today, & details made to work on it. At noon was detailed for picket to report imm...

At two in the morning, I was ordered to get the regiment under arms and into line. It was now Sunday morning, 15th. We expected we were goi...

Large details of men from our division were sent out to cut and prepare timber for the engineers to build a wharf at the landing so that th...

Camp On Seneca Creek , July 5, 1863. Yesterday our teamsters brought rumours of the battle of July 3d and of our immense success, and a...

colonel, — Please request the governor 1 to order three thousand muskets to Staunton at his earliest convenience for the militia of this ...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, December 11, 1864. HON. JAMES A. SEDDON, Secretary of War, Richmond. SIR: I have been inf...

The Washington Correspondent of the New York Commercial, one of the most observing and intelligent at the capital, sees in the inspection ...