The Fourth has passed off quietly in the little town of Buckhannon and in camp. At ten o'clock the Third and Fourth Regiments were rev...

Camp Flat Top , May 26, 1862. Dearest : — Your excellent letters of [the] 17th and 19th came this morning — only a week in getting to m...

We arrived [at Simsport]. This place is simply a point where the Red River road crosses the Atchaffalaya Bayou. There are two or three hous...

Cantonment Hicks , February 9, 1862, near Frederick. If I could take the wings of this brisk, sunny morning, I would certainly fold th...

It is now Sunday morning, and quite cold. We have been building a log-kitchen, and are now building a stable. The government has, I underst...

Harper's Ferry, Va. , July 30, 1861. Our regiment is now left here alone, the whole army having moved across the Potomac together w...