COLUMBUS, OHIO, November 8, 1869. DEAR GENERAL:—I congratulate you back again [—on your election to the state Senate]. Some enemy of yours...

COLUMBUS, OHIO, November 13, 1869. DEAR SAGE: I am in receipt of yours of yesterday. I will send you reports of [the] Ohio Penitentiary an...

Arrive at Columbia, S. C., at dawn. The night passed disagreeably. Although our destiny is prison, men are impatient at delays, growl at ...

We have enjoyed three days of furlough, with no drill or duty to speak of, and most of the company are in good trim again. It has rained muc...

Thanksgiving was a great day in the barracks and a fine day outside, except for those who are on guard. We will recollect them all day, havi...

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...

Since Thanksgiving we have been drill, drill, drilling, the same as at Readville, only, we hope, better. There is very little to write about...

Thanksgiving day. Governor Sprague furnished twenty turkeys for us. SOURCE: Theodore Reichardt,  Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode ...

COLUMBUS, November 11, 1868. DEAR UNCLE:—We are jogging along as usual a little more to do than heretofore. The Legislature meeting soon a...

This is Thanksgiving Day as ordered by the President of the United States. Spent the day in the woods on picket duty. My dinner was hard tac...

Brooklyn, New York, Nov. 24. Dear Brother: This day is set apart by many of the States as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God for all hi...

This is a day of National Thanksgiving. Heard a vigorous sermon from Mr. Lewis. Should not subscribe to all his doctrines, but his sermon in...

Took Thanksgiving dinner with Judge James at the Metropolitan Club. Governor Boutwell, a bright, pleasant-looking man, reminding me of Waite...

ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 29, 1860.  . . . This is a holiday, thanksgiving and prayer, but holidays and Sundays are my worst days, as then the cade...

Rained last night; clear to-day. We hear of great rejoicing in the United States over the fall of Atlanta, and this may be premature. Pres...

Camp Russell , November 27, (1864). Sunday. Dear MOTHER: — We are not in winter quarters yet. The continued presence of the Rebel army in...

CAMP RUSSELL, VIRGINIA, November 20, 1864. DEAR UNCLE:— I tonight received yours of the 14th. We have had no battle for a month, and it is...

November 23. – Colder than any huckleberry pudding I know of! Whew, how it blew and friz last night! I took my clothes off in Christian styl...

THANKSGIVING. According to the customs of our Puritan Fathers, last Thursday was observed in Massachusetts and other states as a day of...

CAMP NEVIS, Ky., December 4, 1861:—I have another opportunity of talking with my pen to you and to the readers of the JOURNAL.   As expecte...