For some time General Logan's division of McPherson's corps had been mining under the rebel Fort Hill, one of the most prominent wor...

On the morning of the 3rd when the rebels hung the flag of truce from their fort on the Jackson road, word soon passed along our whole line ...

Still in camp. The men are drilled in batallion drill and dress parades are held regularly. I have ridden around the country and must say th...

[July 1, 1863.] The mine was successfully Exploded today damaging the enemy's works considerably & killing & wounding a number...

GENERAL ORDERS, No. 44.} HDQRS. FIFTEENTH ARMY CORPS,           Walnut Hills, Miss., June 9, 1863. To prevent communication between the enem...

BEHIND VICKSBURG, MISS., June 19 1863 - 10 a.m.,                     VIA MEMPHIS, TENN., June 22 - 9 a.m.           (Received June 24 - 3....

Our Lent services in St. Paul's Lecture-room, at seven o'clock in the morning, are delightful. The room is always crowded to overfl...

Culpepper C. H., Va ., April 20, 1864. . . . The news is that Longstreet has at last reached Lee and that thirteen thousand troops are ...

Headquarters Armies Of The United States, City Point, Va. , Nov. 18, 1864. I wrote a hurried note to wife a day or two ago upon m...

Nashville , Jan. 16, 1864. I arrived here last night 1 and found all well and delighted to see me.   . . . I myself am still troubled ...

Headquarters U. S. Forces, Natchez, Miss ., July 19, 1863. My Dear Wife: To-day is Sunday, one week since I wrote you from Vicksbur...

Corinth, Mississippi, June 19, 1862. YOUR letter of the 8th inst., addressed to me at Covington, Ky., has just reached me. At the tim...