WEST POINT, N.Y., Dec. 6, 1837. Dear Brother: In compliance with your request I sent you a paper shortly after the reception of your letter,...

Thanksgiving day. Governor Sprague furnished twenty turkeys for us. SOURCE: Theodore Reichardt,  Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode ...

Sunday morning the regiment was ordered out on grand guard. Went up on hill some two miles from camp—heavy firing heard in the distance—McAr...

the Sabath and ther is a right smart ice on the ground to day And Bethel is a cooking I. H. Jonstons big turkey for dinner. SOURCE: Bartle...

Quiet. Great slaughter amongst turkeys and chickens! SOURCE: Theodore Reichardt,  Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light Ar...

The last day of the year. Snowing and wet. Gen. H. Cobb writes that the existing Conscription Bureau is a failure so far as Georgia, Alabama...

We marched five miles to-day, and were compelled to halt, as our wagon trains had to get in our front. I and two of our mess killed three tu...

The advance is now passing our regiment. It falls to our lot to be in the rear to-day. Soon we are all in the saddle and on the road. At noo...

Camp Russell , November 27, (1864). Sunday. Dear MOTHER: — We are not in winter quarters yet. The continued presence of the Rebel army in...

CAMP RUSSELL, VIRGINIA, November 20, 1864. DEAR UNCLE:— I tonight received yours of the 14th. We have had no battle for a month, and it is...

This morning we remain in the shade, having no orders to move. Some of the boys sally forth into the plantations, and it is not long until t...

Warmer, calm and cloudy. I saw a large turkey to-day in market (wild), for which $100 was demanded. I saw Dr. Powell to-day. He says the...

The breach seems to widen between the President and Congress, especially the Senate. A majority of the Committee on Military Affairs have r...

There is nothing new to-day. The weather is pleasant for the season, the snow being all gone. Custis has succeeded in getting ten pupils...

Averill has escaped, it is feared. But it is said one of his regiments and all his wagons will be lost. Gen. Longstreet writes (16th...

October 4, 1863. Have been over to Worthington's again to-day. Sam got out his hounds and started a deer for us. We stationed ourse...

Moved out between 2 and 3 A. M. Got on the wrong road and lost some time. Marched to within 5 miles of Greenville and got breakfast and din...

Camp Maskell , December 28, 1862. Dearest :— Sunday evening. Captain Hunter brings me the spurs and pictures; for which, thanks. I will...

On Christmas my wife's cousins, Lieutenant Nelson and privates Ed and Ike Cook and Jim McKell 1 dined with me; all of Company D, Eigh...

It was thawing all night, and there is a heavy fog this morning. The snow will disappear in a few days. A very large number of slave...