Battle of Glendale Farm. This battle is known by five different names: White Oak Swamp, Glendale Farm, Golding's Farm, Turkey Bend, and ...

Get the co up at 2. A. M. to get their breakfasts. At 3 take them to the paralel & get our position before daylight, bullets & shell...

Revelie this morning on the drums which is the first time while we have been before Spanish fort. Soon as breakfast is over many of the men ...

HAGERSTOWN, MD., JULY 8TH, 1863. To  Master  Stark  West,  four years old: MY DEAR LITTLE MAN: I wrote to mamma from our camp near Chamber...

Our wagon reached us this morning and right glad were we to see it. Reached Warrenton, Fauquier county, to-day, and remained there several h...

SIEGE AT WASHINGTON. It has rained nearly all this week, and until yesterday we have been loafing, trying to kill time. Last night our com...

Our part in this expedition is done, and we are on our way back to Knoxville. Wilcox's "baby brigade," as our boys call them, ...

The siege is progressing slowly but surely. We are making gradual approaches and are now within one hundred feet of the enemy's works. T...

Did ever husband and father need the comforting aid of the help-meets of home as I need them this evening? See my table. Six  full  foolscap...

Before day the dog horn and the yelping of hounds was heard. Men on parole about the depot had attempted to escape. Two trains of wounded fr...

Started at four a. m. Reached Raymond by ten o'clock.  The   churches were full of the wounded rebels and our men, for there had been qu...

A day long to be remembered by those who participated in the events I now write about. We all knew we were to assault the rebel works, and t...

No. 12. Reports of Surg. J. Theodore Heard, Medical Director, Fourth Army Corps, of operations November 29-30 and December 15-16, 1864. ...

It was with a bounding heart, brimful of gratitude to God, that I stepped on board the Dakota and bade farewell to Haines Bluff on the secon...

Louisville, Ky. Again in Louisville—eleven hundred miles nearer home than one week ago and yet how far. Still, it is joy to feel I am compar...

Cincinnati, Ohio. We arrived here at 9:30 this morning. My day's work is, at last, completed, at 9 p. m. This has been a busy day. In fa...

Our battery moved back last night about one mile and camped on Hogan's farm. This morning when we awoke we found a party of eight hundre...

Was hauled from off the battle-ground in an ambulance wagon at half past two in the morning. for fear of the enemy opening fire on our hospi...

This afternoon I rode by a mountain path to a log cabin in which a half dozen wounded Tennesseeans are lying. One poor fellow had his leg am...

No. 5. Report of Col. Napoleon B. Buford, Twenty-seventh Illinois Infantry. HDQRS. TWENTY-SEVENTH REG'T ILL. VOLS.,           Cairo, N...