BURKEVILLE, Va. Headquarters Army of Potomac April 19, 1865 Lt.-col. Theo. Lyman, A. D. C. Colonel : — In parting with you after ...

On Board River Queen In Potomac River April 23, 1865 I think I must write you a letter, though it may get to you not much before the ...

April 17, 1865 How wicked we are in this world! — Now, when I should be only overflowing with joy and thankfulness at these great resul...

April 9, 1865 We all were up, according to habit, about daylight, with horses saddled, having staid near Stute's house for the nigh...

April 8, 1865 We have been making our usual little picnic to-day — say nineteen miles — and have got about half-way between Burkeville ...

April 7, 1865 The country about Deatonsville (a cluster of half-adozen brick farmhouses) is a great improvement, full of hills, not hig...

Headquarters Army Of Potomac Richmond and Burkeville R.R. 10 miles north of Burkeville April 6, 1865 We are pelting after Old Lee...

April 5, 1865 Last night, at 9.30, came a note from Sheridan, dated at Jetersville, saying that he was there, entrenched, with the 5th ...

April 4, 1865 We had camped last night round about Sutherland's Station, as I told you. The fields there were covered with waggons ...

April 3, 1865 We began our day early, for, about light, I heard Duane say, outside my tent: “They have evacuated Petersburg.” Sure enou...

April 2, 1865 Last night was a busy one and a noisy. Some battery or other was playing the whole time, and, now and then, they would al...

April 1,1865 You will see the April Fool was on the Rebels; for they did not know that, the night before, we had sent down an entire co...

March 31, 1865 The rain held up about ten A.M. and the sun once more shone. By this time our lines, running east and west, had been mov...

March 30, 1865 I take advantage of a rainy morning to draw you a map and start a letter, to explain and recount the deeds of yester...

March 29, 1865 This has been a day of manoeuvre and not much fighting. To-morrow may see something more serious. It seems like old time...

March 28, 1865 You must let me off with a few lines to-night, because I have some little packing yet to do and would like a good modicu...

March 26, 1865 My letter of yesterday only gave a part of the day's work. Our train went briskly up to the front and stopped not ...

March 25, 1865 We may indeed call this a many-sided field-day: a breakfast with a pleasure party, an assault and a recapture of an entr...

March 18, 1865 This morning I sent you a telegraph, which may be rather late, I fear, though I sent it at the earliest chance. It was t...

March 13, 1865 We have a long telegram from Sheridan, dated Columbia (a small place on the James, between Lynchburg and Richmond). His ...