Camp near Orange Court House, Va., August 2, 1863. In a recent letter I promised to write you more about our campaign in Pennsylvania. O...

Camp near Orange Court House, Va . , August 10, 1863. All is quiet here now. When two armies have a great battle both sides are so cripple...

Near Bunker Hill, Jefferson County, Va . ,           July 17, 1863. You will see by this letter that we have gotten back into “Old Virgini...

Left this morning at 5 o'clock. Only marched ten miles to-day. The enemy being in our rear, and skirmishing very strong. SOURCE: Louis...

Our company was ordered out as skirmishers to-day, as our regular skirmish corps was broken up during the fight. We were the rear of the arm...

We are resting, and, goodness knows, we need it very much. I sold my coat for twenty dollars and a gray jacket. We lost in the last fight in...

Moved four and a half miles on the other side of town. We have fortified ourselves here. SOURCE: Louis Leon,  Diary of a Tar Heel Confeder...

Orders read out to-day from our father, R. E. Lee, that we would fight the enemy once more on their own soil, as they were now in our front....

News came to us to-day that Vicksburg had fallen on the 4th. Heavy skirmishing, fighting all day. Our brigade again acted as the rear of our...

The roads are so bad that it is hard work to trudge along. I stuck in the mud several times, and lost one shoe in a mud hole, but of course ...

No. 195. Reports of Col. James C. Rice, Forty-fourth New York Infantry, commanding regiment and Third Brigade. HDQRS. FORTY-FOURTH...

No. 338. Reports of Col. William Gamble, Eighth Illinois Cavalry, commanding First Brigade. HDQRS. FIRST CAVALRY BRIGADE,     June...