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...

Last Wednesday Miss O. and myself visited Hospital No. 1, for the second time. They were just robing one young boy in his soldier's su...

Corinth, Miss. As it is seen from the last date, I have not written any for some time and I must write of the past from memory. Not getting ...

Our camp here was made without consulting the Surgeons. It was laid out without order, and the tents are so close together that teams cannot...

These mountain streams are unreliable. We had come to regard the one on which we are encamped as a quiet, orderly little river, that would b...

10 Oc I & Emma Amandus & our Cozens Maria & Mary Kelley attended Catholic Church after which we went to the Hospital Boat & ...

Wounded men are taken out from among us to be sent back. All windows are ordered closed. Owing to this order two of our fellows rigged up a ...

This afternoon, when riding down to Huttonville, I met three or four hundred sorry-looking soldiers. They were without arms. On inquiry, I f...

We are still in the harbor at Memphis awaiting orders. Eight hundred and fifty wounded men were brought to this place yesterday from Vicksbu...

Appearances and talk on the streets last night indicated that they had news that worried them. This morning I learned from a sergeant, that ...

On the 5th instant a scouting party, under Captain Lawson, started for Middle Fork bridge, a point eighteen miles from camp. At eight o'...

We were rejoiced this morning to hear of Rosecrans' success, and, at the same time, not well pleased at the escape of the enemy under co...

Started at half-past six A.M., passing Millville and Philmont, to Millburg, where we saw a lot of wounded rebels, and went into camp at five...

At four o'clock this morning "all was wrong." We were aroused from the most miserable attempt at sleep our boys ever dreamed o...