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...

At 7 A.M. started for Rebel lines with flag of truce. Colonel McKibbin and Captain Swain. Spent day there. Subject: endeavor to get our woun...

Ambulances went into Rebel lines to get our wounded. SOURCE: Archibald Gracie, The Truth about Chickamauga , p. 386

VIRGINIA GIRLS OF SWEET SIXTEEN DID NOT LOVE US. Weather hot; two more trains of Rebel wounded pass. Report that General Wadsworth and oth...

I was visited by my Colonel to-day. He introduced the subject of reducing my hospital force. I was extra-polite, and replied that I had not ...

BEHIND THE ENEMY'S GUNS; LEE AND LONGSTREET. Up at earliest dawn. Feeling quite well. The sound of battle was in our ears. The ground ...

This morning we learn that Rome is in danger of an attack from Hood's northward bound column. We are early ordered into line, and soon w...

We are now camped upon the banks of Chicamauga, a name that has gone to history inscribed with deeds of blood. This evening companies D, H a...

Near Petersburg, Va.,           October 29, 1864. I suppose you have heard how we whipped the Yankees on both this side and the north side...

  Newberry , S.  C.           , May 2, 1865 . It was well you left Petersburg when you did, for the very next day (April 2) our extreme ri...

Wilderness, May 7, 1864. On the 5th we marched all day on the plank road from Orange Court House to this place. We got into a hard fight o...

March 14, Evening. A curious incident occurred this morning which gave me a full hundred (from both regiments) sick and wounded to examine...

Camp near Moss Neck, Va.,           May 9, 1863. On Saturday morning (the 2d inst.) I received an order to ship the wounded to Richmond, s...

Henrico County, Va . ,           June  3 , 1862. Our army whipped the Yankees so badly on Saturday and Sunday (May 28-29) that there was n...

Camp near Richmond, Va.,           June 29, 1862. I was correct in my last letter to you when I predicted that the great battle had commen...

The U. S. Sanitary Commission has been organized. Canandaigua sent Dr. W. Fitch Cheney to Gettysburg with supplies for the sick and wounded ...

To-day Governor Yates visits the Seventh and makes them a speech, which is full of cheer, full of hope and life, right straight from Dick...

January 27, 1863. I appropriated the mess-room for operations and the officer's berths to receive the wounded. Fortunately we had though...

STEAMER Ben Deford, FERNANDINA, FLA., January 28, 1863.   While superintending the transfer of the wounded from the John Adams last night, I...