June 29th 1863 Dear Julia, During the present week I think the fate of Vicksburg will be decided. Johnston is still hovering beyond the Blac...

ASHEBORO, May 15, 1861 . I have been forced by surrounding facts to take sides, or rather front, with my section. I regard a prudent peace, ...

Alabama March 13, 1861 Ratified the Confederate Constitution Georgia March 16, 1861 Ratified the Confeder...

BLADEN, ALABAMA, Aug. 3, 1862. MY DEAR GENERAL:—I regret much to hear of ——— being wounded. I hope he will soon be able to face the Abo...

Why didn’t Denmark die in the last ditch? Plucky as she has been she happens to be made of flesh and blood, and this sort of dying is not a...

HEADQUARTERS FIFTH DIVISION,                   MEMPHIS, TENN., August 11, 1862. Hon. S. P. CHASE, Secretary of the Treasury. SIR: Y...

It is not yet daylight in the morning, and are anxiously awaiting the hour to arrive when we may go out to the road. Slept hardly any durin...

June 6, 1864. I will try and send you this to-day. Our postmaster never calls for letters, though we could send them if he would. I wil...

Gallipolis , September 24, [1863]. Dear Uncle : — Lucy arrived here safely last night. We shall go up the Kanawha tomorrow. I hope ...

(Private and Unofficial) New Orleans , Sept. 24th, 1862. Dear Sir : Your kind letter of the 8th. inst. reached me yesterday. I show...

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

Pleasant and rather cool. My hair is playing me pranks. It grows straight up in the air and only on the topmost part of my head. Where a ma...

Gov. Vance writes that he has reliable information that the 30,000 troops in New York, ostensibly to enforce the draft, are intended for a ...

Have seen many of my old comrades of Andersonville, among whom is my tried friend Sergt. Wm. B. Rowe; were heartily glad to see one another...

Last night I talked with a guard while Mike Hoare went out of his tunnel and got away safely from the hospital. The guard was on the inside...

As the avowed motive of the Government of the United States for the prosecution of the existing war with the Confederate States is to secur...

CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, In the House of Representatives, July 22 , 1861 . On motion of Mr. Wickliffe: Resolved, That the Sec...

Received official information from General Sherman this morning that he had taken Savannah, Ga. with thirty-three thousand bales of cotton,...

Already, as if quite certain that the great Northwest would speedily withdraw from the Eastern United States, our people are discussing the...

Vienna, 20 Favoriten Strasse, Wieden, November 25, 1862. Dearest Little Mary : We jog on here much as usual. We are fortunate in our ...